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Amor de Perdição 7.19 · 7.19

Justice was in the dark

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Um apenas adiantava coisa que não podia alumiar a justiça, e vinha a ser que o mato, nas visinhanças do local, fôra chapotado. N’esta escuridade a justiça não podia dar passo algum.

One alone offered a thing that could not light the law's way, namely that the brush, near the spot, had been hacked about. In this darkness justice could take no step at all.

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One alone offered a thing that could not light the law's way, namely that the brush, near the spot, had been hacked about. In this darkness justice could take no step at all.

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