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O Guarani 3.51 · 3.51

I guessed your wish to hurry

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— Ora dizei-me, Sr. cavalheiro, não vos parece claro, á vista do que me ouvistes que adevinhei o vosso desejo de chegar o mais depressa possivel?

“Come, tell me, Sir knight — in view of what you heard from me, does it not seem plain to you that I guessed your wish to arrive as quickly as possible?”

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“Come, tell me, Sir knight — in view of what you heard from me, does it not seem plain to you that I guessed your wish to arrive as quickly as possible?”

A note on this passage

Loredano pretends the whole innuendo was only about Álvaro's haste to get home — a harmless guess. It is a retreat that is not one: he offers the innocent reading while both men know a second meaning sits underneath it.

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