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O Guarani 4.8 · 4.8

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.

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The setting

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.

A note on this passage

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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