ALENCAR

O Guarani 5.45 · 5.45

Some misfortune

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— Saiu antes de ontem à tarde; não vá ter-lhe sucedido alguma desgraça! disse a moça estremecendo.

"He went out the day before yesterday in the afternoon; let no misfortune have befallen him!" said Cecília, shuddering.

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The setting

Chapter V. The banter turns to real worry — Peri has been gone two days — and Cecília, troubled, turns to her tame deer.

A note on this passage

The shudder gives her away before her words do. What began as a joke about a 'tame animal' has become fear for a man's life, and Alencar marks the shift in her body — the involuntary tremor of someone who cares far more than she has admitted, even to herself.

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