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O Guarani 5.49 · 5.49

He would not abandon us

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— Não! exclamou a moça com vivacidade; não é possível que nos abandonasse assim!

"No!" exclaimed Cecília vehemently; "it is not possible that he would abandon us like that!"

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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.

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Her vehemence overshoots the occasion, and both girls can hear it. Cecília defends Peri's loyalty as if her own were at stake — the first time in the chapter that feeling breaks clean through the surface of play.

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