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| "No sabemos",respondieron los niños; "se ha ido". | "We don't know," answered the children; "he has gone away." |
| "Decidle que venga mañana sin falta", repuso el gigante. Pero los niños contestaron que no sabÃan dónde vivÃa y hasta entonces no le habÃan visto nunca. Y el gigante se quedó muy triste. | "You must tell him to be sure and come here to-morrow," said the Giant. But the children said that they did not know where he lived, and had never seen him before; and the Giant felt very sad. |
| Todas las tardes a la salida del colegio venÃan los niños a jugar con el gigante, pero éste ya no volvió a ver el pequeñuelo a quien querÃa tanto. Era muy bondadoso con todos los niños, pero echaba de menos a su primer amiguito y hablaba de él con frecuencia. "¡Cómo me gustarÃa verle!" solÃa decir. | Every afternoon, when school was over, the children came and played with the Giant. But the little boy whom the Giant loved was never seen again. The Giant was very kind to all the children, yet he longed for his first little friend, and often spoke of him. "How I would like to see him!" he used to say. |
| Pasaron los años y el gigante envejeció y fue debilitándose. Ya no podÃa tomar parte en los juegos; permanecÃa sentado en un gran sillón viendo jugar a los niños. "Tengo muchas flores bellas" decÃa, "pero los niños son las flores más bellas". | Years went over, and the Giant grew very old and feeble. He could not play about any more, so he sat in a huge armchair, and watched the children at their games, and admired his garden. "I have many beautiful flowers," he said; "but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all." |
| Una mañana de invierno, mientras se vestÃa, miró por la ventana. Ya no detestaba el invierno; sabia que no es sino el sueño de la primavera y el reposo de las flores. | One winter morning he looked out of his window as he was dressing. He did not hate the Winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were resting. |
| De pronto se frotó los ojos, atónito, y miró con atención. Realmente era una visión maravillosa. En un extremo del jardÃn habÃa un árbol casi cubierto de flores blancas. Sus ramas eran todas de oro y colgaban de ellas frutos de plata; bajo el árbol aquél estaba el pequeñuelo a quien querÃa tanto. | Suddenly he rubbed his eyes in wonder, and looked and looked. It certainly was a marvellous sight. In the farthest corner of the garden was a tree quite covered with lovely white blossoms. Its branches were all golden, and silver fruit hung down from them, and underneath it stood the little boy he had loved. |
| El gigante se precipitó por las escaleras lleno de alegrÃa y entró en el jardÃn. Corrió por el césped y se acercó al niño. Y cuando estuvo junto a él, su cara enrojeció de cólera y exclamó: " ¿Quién se ha atrevido a herirte?". En las palmas de la mano del niño y en sus piececitos veÃanse las señales sangrientas de dos clavos. | Downstairs ran the Giant in great joy, and out into the garden. He hastened across the grass, and came near to the child. And when he came quite close his face grew red with anger, and he said, "Who hath dared to wound thee?" For on the palms of the child's hands were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails were on the little feet. |
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