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T-ujpap-u2-R10c-v1 — Mikszáth, «Szent Péter esernyője» I.iii, unit U2, target C

Source. workshop/translations/uj-pap/source-u2.txt, Part I ch. III paragraphs 10–21, 250 Hungarian words, PG #68911.

Regime. R10, target C = A-mchugh-presence, propositions C01–C19 of claims.json at 109b103. Opportunity list frozen at 8d065a0.

Position in the arm order: FIRST. On unit U1 the centre arm was written second; here it is written first. The reversal is the design and it is within one work, one session and one translator, which is what S074 and S075 could not do because each held only one unit (wiki/backlog.md, the S075 row).

The confound this pair still carries, stated rather than defended. U1 and U2 are different source material — U1 is narration, U2 is more than half dialogue — so unit and arm-position are perfectly confounded in the lead's own four renderings. The lead limb is therefore a description with n = 1 per cell and is never this session's test. The test is E-20260731h-carryover, where three panel seats render the same unit under both orders and under neither.

Contamination: none. Worswick 1900 has not been opened for this chapter; the selection gate is deliberately not run in its selecting form, per note (bel). See u1-R10p-v1/translation.md for the full basis.

Judgment. The lead never judges its own translation (charter §5).

Translation

So it was in very bad shape, thin, when the new priest arrived and the sexton showed him around his new home: the four bare walls, the garden grown over with weeds, the empty stable and pens.

The poor young priest smiled.

"And all this is mine?"

"All of it, everything you see. Even the dog," Peter Szlavik said, with some enjoyment.

"What dog is that?"

"That one's part of the late priest's estate. It stayed on after him. We'd have killed the poor useless thing by now, but nobody dares, because they say the old priest might be watching from up there and come back to haunt us over it."

The dog looked up at the new priest, mild and sad, almost pleading. Maybe it was the sight of the cassock that put it in that mood.

"I'll keep it," the priest said, and he bent down and patted the thin animal's back. "At least there'll be something alive near me."

"That'll do nicely," the sexton said. He was enjoying himself; it's a real pleasure for a peasant to tease a priest. "You have to start somewhere. You could do it the other way around, get the thing worth guarding first and then the guard. But this way is fine too, Father."

He smiled. He could smile in a way that made you like him, like a girl. He could see for himself that there wasn't going to be much of a job for old Vistula, that he'd be a private citizen in dog society.

Meanwhile more and more people were gathering in the yard. Young married women watched from a distance and said, "God, he's so young, and a priest already." The men came right up and shook his hand.

"Welcome! You'll do well here."

250 Hungarian words → 290 English words.

Translator's log

Frozen before any evaluation of this translation was designed. Codes as elsewhere in this work.

Codes: A 22 · X 3 · N 0 · 25 logged decisions. All three X codes (2, 5, 15) are refusals of the C target; two of them (2, 15) are sites where two C propositions conflict, which is the same shape the U1 C rendering found.