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O Guarani 11.48 · 11.48

A ripple curling toward the bathing-place

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A ondulação produzida nos arbustos foi-se estendendo como um caracol e aproximando-se do lagar onde a moça se banhava, até que parou detrás de umas grandes pedras que havia à beira do rio.

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The ripple in the bushes went spreading like a snail and drawing near the pool where the girl was bathing, until it stopped behind some great rocks at the river's edge.

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