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O Guarani 16.6 · 16.6

Three men in the porch

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No vasto copiar do pouso havia três pessoas contemplando com um certo prazer a luta espantosa dos elementos, que para homens habituados como eles, não deixava de ter alguma beleza.

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In the vast open porch of the waystation there were three persons contemplating with a certain pleasure the fearsome struggle of the elements, which, for men habituated as they were, did not fail to have some beauty.

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