The Hound of the Baskervilles, de Arthur Conan Doyle, tiene lugar en Dartmoor, Devon, Inglaterra; y cuenta la historia de un asesinato inspirado en la leyenda de un diabólico sabueso de origen sobrenatural. Arthur Conan Doyle escribió esta historia un poco después de llegar de Sud África, donde había estado como médico voluntario en Bloemfontein en la Guerra de los Boers.
En los párrafos de abajo Hugo secuestra a la hija de
un granjero y bebe con sus secuaces festejando la acción. La joven escapa y los
juerguistas deciden capturarla soltando a los sabuesos. Cuando los amigos de
Hugo llegan a cierto lugar encuentran algo macabro. Uno de los sabuesos ha dado
muerte a Hugo y todavía muerde el cuello del hombre…
En vocabulario
encontramos Michaelmas, eave, betwixt, hath,
hounds, whereat, grooms, y revellers.
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… he was a most wild, profane, and godless man… It
chanced that this Hugo came to love the daughter of a farmer who held lands
near the Baskerville estate. But the young maiden, being discreet and of good
repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name. So it came to pass
that one Michaelmas this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked
companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden, her father and
brothers being from home, as he well knew…
Ilustración para la revista The Strand, 1901
Párrafos
... "Of the origin of the Hound of the
Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line
from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it
from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here
set forth…
"Know then that in the time of the Great
Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly
commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that
name, nor can it be argued that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man…
It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be
known under so bright a name) the daughter of a farmer who held lands near the
Baskerville estate. But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute,
would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name. So it came to pass that one
Michaelmas this
Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the
farm and carried off the maiden, her father and brothers being from home, as he
well knew. When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an
upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long party, as was
their nightly custom. Now, the poor girl upstairs was like to have her wits
turned at the singing and shouting and terrible oaths which came up to her from
below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in
wine, were such as might blast the man who said them. At last in the stress of
her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man,
for by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered (and still covers) the south
wall she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three
leagues betwixt the
Hall and her father's farm.
"It chanced that some little time later Hugo
left his guests to carry food and drink—with other worse things, possibly—to
his captive, and so found the cage empty and the bird escaped. Then, as it
would seem, he became as one that hath a devil, for, rushing down the stairs into the dining-hall,
he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenchers flying before him, and he
cried aloud before all the company that he would that very night render his
body and soul to the Powers of Evil if he might but overtake the girl. And
while the celebrators stood amazed at the fury of the man, one more wicked or,
it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her. Whereat Hugo ran from the
house, crying to his grooms
that they should saddle his mare and unkennel the pack, and giving the hounds a
kerchief of the maid's, he swung them to the line, and so off full cry in the
moonlight over the moor…
Everything was now in an uproar, some calling for
their pistols, some for their horses, and some for another flask of wine. But
at length some sense came back to their crazed minds, and the whole of them,
thirteen in number, took horse and started in pursuit…
But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a
galloping across the moor, and the black mare, wetted with white froth, went
past with trailing bridle and empty saddle. Then the revellers rode close together, for a great
fear was on them, but they still followed over the moor, though each, had he
been alone, would have been right glad to have turned his horse's head. Riding
slowly in this fashion they came at last upon the hounds. These, though known
for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a
deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some,
with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before
them… (The Hound of the Baskervilles,
by Arthur Conan Doyle)
Vocabulario
Michaelmas:
fiesta de San Miguel (el 29 de setiembre).
Eave:
alero.
Betwixt:
(archaic) between.
Hath:
(archaic) third person singular present of have.
Hounds:
sabuesos.
Whereat:
(archaic) at which.
"They demanded an equal share in the high
command, whereat
negotiations broke down"
Grooms:
mozos de cuadra.
Revellers:
juerguistas.
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