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O Guarani 16.40 · 16.40

In the dark

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Já havia anoitecido, o aposento estava na maior escuridão; apenas por instantes o relâmpago brilhava lançando o clarão azulado sobre o confessor meio reclinado para o moribundo a fim de escutar-lhe a voz que ia gradualmente enfraquecendo.

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Night had already fallen; the room lay in the deepest darkness; only for instants the lightning flashed, casting its bluish glare over the confessor half-reclined toward the dying man to catch his voice, which was gradually growing weaker.

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