Not even a bee should touch her lips
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Eis pois a razão por que Cecília recomendava a Peri que estivesse quieto e sossegado; é verdade que ela sabia que essa recomendação era sempre inútil, e que o índio faria tudo para que uma abelha sequer não viesse beijar os seus lábios vermelhos confundindo-os com uma flor de pequiá.
Such, then, was why Cecília bade Peri be quiet — though she knew the charge was always vain, and that the Indian would do everything so that not even a bee should come to kiss her red lips, mistaking them for a pequiá flower.
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