A blush that fades
Read the full text in our reader
Sonhava que corava; e um rubor vivo acendia o rosado de suas faces; mas a pouco e pouco esse casto enleio ia se desvanecendo, e acabava num gracioso sorriso que sua alma vinha pousar nos lábios.
She dreamed that she blushed; a vivid flush kindled the pink of her cheeks; but little by little that chaste confusion faded, and ended in a graceful smile that her soul came to rest on her lips.
Chapter V. Cecília is named, and the narrator follows her half-waking daydream in the hammock.
The image of the soul coming to 'settle' on the lips, like a bird alighting, is one of Alencar's tenderest touches. The whole emotion moves from blush to embarrassment to smile without a single word or act — desire kept entirely interior, entirely safe.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open O Guarani 5.13 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the O Guarani — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
O Guarani 5.13 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/guarani/5.13/