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O Guarani 23.17 · 23.17

Peri returns with the pouch

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Quando, passado um quarto de hora, a menina abriu os olhos, viu diante dela Peri que chegava naquele momento, e lhe apresentava sorrindo uma bolsa de malha de retrós, dentro da qual havia uma caixinha de velado escarlate.

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When, a quarter of an hour later, the girl opened her eyes, she saw before her Peri, who arrived at that moment and, smiling, held out to her a purse of twisted-silk mesh, inside which lay a little box of scarlet velvet.

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