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O Guarani 10.60 · 10.60

To see her would be a sacrilege

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Mas Peri entendia que apesar disto seria uma profanação consentir que um olhar de quem quer que fosse visse a senhora no seu trajo de banho; nem mesmo o dele que era seu escravo, e por conseguinte não podia ofendê-la, a ela que era o seu único deus.

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But Peri held that, despite this, it would be a profanation to allow any eye whatever to see his mistress in her bathing-dress — not even his own, who was her slave and so could not offend her, she who was his one god.

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