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Álvaro fitou no índio um olhar admirado. Onde é que este selvagem sem cultura aprendera a poesia simples, mas graciosa; onde bebera a delicadeza de sensibilidade que dificilmente se encontra num coração gasto pelo atrito da sociedade?
Álvaro fixed an admiring look on the Indian. Where had this uncultured savage learned poetry so simple yet graceful; where had he drunk in the delicacy of feeling scarcely found in a heart worn by the friction of society?
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