The green beetle of hope
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Em um desses momentos um dos insetos que pululavam no meio da folhagem agitada esvoaçou, e veio pousar no seu ombro; era uma esperança, um desses lindos coleópteros verdes que a poesia popular chama lavandeira-de-deus.
In one of those moments one of the insects that swarmed amid the stirring foliage fluttered up and came to rest on her shoulder; it was an esperança, one of those lovely green beetles that popular poetry calls the washerwoman-of-God.
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