The riders appear
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Assim, durante um curto instante, a fera e o selvagem mediram-se mutuamente, com os olhos nos olhos um do outro; depois o tigre agachou-se, e ia formar o salto, quando a cavalgata apareceu na entrada da clareira. Então o animal, lançando ao redor um olhar injetado de sangue, eriçou o pêlo, e ficou imóvel no mesmo lugar, hesitando se devia arriscar o ataque.
Thus, for a brief instant, the beast and the savage measured each other, eyes locked in eyes; then the tiger crouched and was about to form its leap, when the cavalcade appeared at the entrance of the clearing. Then the animal, casting a bloodshot look about it, bristled its fur and stayed motionless in the same place, hesitating whether it should risk the attack.
For a moment beast and man take each other's measure; the tiger crouches to spring — just as the cavalcade appears at the clearing's mouth, and the animal freezes.
Alencar uses 'tigre' and 'onça' interchangeably for the jaguar, a period habit. The riders' arrival is a hinge: the spring that was inevitable now hangs, undecided.
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