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— Ainda bem, que presenciaste com teos proprios olhos o que eu não tinha animo de dizer-te.
— It's just as well that you witnessed with your own eyes what I hadn't the heart to tell you.
— It's just as well that you witnessed with your own eyes what I hadn't the heart to tell you.
Henrique is half-relieved, half-absolved — 'ainda bem que presenciaste'. The thing he could not bring himself to say, 'não tinha animo de dizer-te', her own eyes have now told her. His fatal indiscretion is retroactively excused by the truth it revealed; the messenger is let off because the message proved true.
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