His eyes on the hedge of leaves
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Nesse instante erguia a cabeça e fitava os olhos numa sebe de folhas que se elevava a vinte passos de distancia, e se agitava imperceptivelmente.
At that instant he raised his head and fixed his eyes on a hedge of leaves that rose twenty paces off, and that stirred imperceptibly.
At that instant he lifts his head and fixes his eyes on a hedge of leaves twenty paces off, stirring imperceptibly — the jaguar is there.
The portrait breaks off the moment the hunter's stillness acquires a target. 'Imperceptivelmente' — the danger announces itself as almost nothing, a barely-moving screen of green.
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