ALENCAR

O Guarani 5.81 · 5.81

It's gone now

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— Oh! já passou! disse a moça saltando ligeiramente da rede.

"Oh! it's already gone!" said Cecília, springing nimbly from the hammock.

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The setting

Chapter V. The sisterhood is sealed with a game; Cecília's high spirits return, and she calls the turtledove with a girl's mimicry of its song.

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The sadness lifts as quickly as it came, and Alencar sends her out of the hammock in a single light bound — the whole languid stillness of the chapter's opening thrown off in an instant. Her recovery is as effortless as her charm.

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