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O Guarani 24.25 · 24.25

I have a natural daughter

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— O que me resta a dizer-vos é difícil; custa sempre confessar uma falta, ainda mesmo quando se fala a almas generosas. Tenho uma filha natural: a estima que voto a minha mulher e o receio de fazer essa pobre menina corar de seu nascimento, obrigaram-me a dar-lhe em vida o título de sobrinha.

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What remains for me to say to you is hard; it always costs to confess a fault, even when one speaks to generous souls. I have a natural daughter: the esteem I bear my wife and the fear of making that poor girl blush at her birth compelled me to give her, in life, the title of niece.

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