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Separamo-nos com muito afeto: ele, de dentro do ônibus, ainda me disse adeus, com a mão. Conservei-me à porta, a ver se, ao longe, ainda olharia para trás, mas não olhou.— Que amigo é esse tamanho?
We parted with much affection: he, from inside the bus, still said goodbye to me with his hand. I kept myself at the door, to see if, in the distance, he would still look back, but he did not look. — What kind of friend is that?
The narrator describes a farewell with a friend.
The narrator describes a farewell where he watches his friend leave, hoping for a last glance, but the friend does not look back, prompting a rhetorical question about the nature of their friendship.
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