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O Guarani 11.35 · 11.35

The girls understood neither the phrase nor the smile

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As moças que estavam bem longe de saber até que ponto tinha chegado a loucura de Peri, e que não julgavam possível que um homem pudesse fazer o que ele tinha feito, não compreenderam nem a frase, nem o sorriso.

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The young women, being far from knowing how far Peri's madness had gone, and not believing it possible that a man could do what he had done, understood neither the phrase nor the smile.

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