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O Guarani 17.18 · 17.18

The stone buries itself

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No momento em que o fidalgo deitava Cecília quase desmaiada sobre o regaço materno, o índio saltava no meio do vale; a pedra girando sobre si, precipitada do alto da colina, enterrava-se profundamente no chão.

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At the moment the nobleman laid Cecília, half-fainting, on her mother's lap, the Indian was leaping into the middle of the valley; the stone, spinning on itself, hurled down from the top of the hill, buried itself deep in the ground.

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