ALENCAR

O Guarani 5.23 · 5.23

Cecília wakes

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Cecília, sentindo um estremecimento, abriu os olhos e fitou-os em sua prima.

Cecília, feeling a shiver, opened her eyes and fixed them on her cousin.

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The setting

Chapter V. The daydream ends; Cecília's cousin Isabel comes into the garden — a Brazilian beauty set as her opposite.

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The dream is over; the two women are face to face at last. Alencar has spent twenty paragraphs painting them apart precisely so this ordinary domestic moment — a girl waking to find her cousin bent over her — carries the weight of the whole contrast behind it.

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