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O Guarani 5.34 · 5.34

Then what makes you sad?

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— Então o que é que te faz triste?

"Then what is it that makes you sad?"

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

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Isabel keeps pressing, and her plain question is the one Cecília cannot answer — which is why Alencar gives it the last word of the paragraph. The scene has quietly become an interrogation of a feeling neither girl can yet see the shape of.

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