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O Guarani 5.32 · 5.32

Weary of these wilds

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— Ah! compreendo! estás enfastiada de viver aqui nestes ermos.

"Ah! I understand! you're weary of living here in these wilds."

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AhahAh!compreendokom-pree-EN-dooI understand!estáses-TASyou areenfastiadaen-fas-tee-A-dawearydejeeofvivervee-VERlivingaquia-KEEherenestesNES-teesin theseermosER-mooswilds.

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Chapter V. Cecília and Isabel talk — teasing banter that circles a real sadness in Cecília she cannot explain.

A note on this passage

Isabel reaches for the obvious explanation — homesickness for the city, boredom with the frontier. It is the wrong answer, and Cecília's reply will correct it beautifully: she is not weary of the wilderness at all. Alencar uses the misreading to let his heroine declare her love of the land.

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