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O Guarani 5.67 · 5.67

Only you love me

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— Não te canses, prima; isto só serve para provar-me ainda mais o que já te confessei: nesta casa só tu me amas, os mais me desprezam.

"Don't tire yourself, cousin; this only serves to prove to me still more what I already confessed: in this house only you love me, the rest despise me."

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The setting

Chapter V. Cecília offers her cousin true sisterhood — and Isabel, moved, lets slip that her heart is set on a 'him' she will not name.

A note on this passage

Isabel refuses to be talked out of what she knows, and states her loneliness bare: one ally in a whole household. Alencar has given her the clearest eyes in the room — she sees the family's coldness that Cecília's goodness will not let her see.

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