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O Guarani 3.53 · 3.53

Twenty days to the end of it

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— Não vos parece claro tambem que observe haverdes feito esta expedição com a maior rapidez, de modo que em menos de vinte dias eis-nos ao cabo della?

“Does it not seem plain to you, too, that I remark you've made this journey with the greatest speed — so that in fewer than twenty days here we are at the end of it?”

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“Does it not seem plain to you, too, that I remark you've made this journey with the greatest speed — so that in fewer than twenty days here we are at the end of it?”

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Loredano keeps circling the same point — the unusual haste — pretending merely to admire it. Each ‘innocent' observation narrows toward the question of why Álvaro pushed the whole band so hard to get home.

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