Only nineteen days
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— Dezenove dias apenas... disse Isabel maquinalmente.
"Only nineteen days..." said Isabel absently.
Chapter V (close). The two cousins count the days of the riders' absence — each betraying her own heart — and go in as the sun sets.
The number falls out before she can stop it — she has been counting. Alencar lets Isabel's love speak in an arithmetic she did not mean to reveal, the exact tally of days since Álvaro rode away.
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