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O Guarani 18.4 · 18.4

Isabel's melancholy

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Em Isabel o índio fizera a mesma impressão que lhe causava sempre a presença de um homem daquela cor; lembrara-se de sua mãe infeliz, da raça de que provinha, e da causa do desdém com que era geralmente tratada.

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In Isabel the Indian had made the same impression the presence of a man of that color always caused her; she remembered her unhappy mother, the race she sprang from, and the cause of the disdain with which she was generally treated.

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