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O Guarani 21.30 · 21.30

Why he keeps silent

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Resolveu não dizer nada a quem quer que fosse, nem mesmo a D. Antônio de Mariz: duas razões o levavam a proceder assim; a primeira era o receio de não ser acreditado, pois não tinha provas com que pudesse justificar a acusação, que ele, índio ia fazer contra homens brancos; a segunda era a confiança que tinha de que ele só bastava para desfazer todas as tramas dos aventureiros, e lutar contra o italiano.

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He resolved to say nothing to anyone whatever, not even to D. Antônio de Mariz: two reasons led him to act thus; the first was the fear of not being believed, for he had no proofs by which to justify the accusation an Indian was going to make against white men; the second was his confidence that he alone was enough to undo all the adventurers' plots and to fight the Italian.

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