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O Guarani 5.97 · 5.97

You counted the days?

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— Contaste os dias?

"You counted the days?"

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Contastekon-TAS-teeYou countedosoosthediasDEE-asdays?

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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.

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Cecília catches the slip at once — the counting gives Isabel away as surely as a confession. For a moment the watcher becomes the watched, and the chapter's careful symmetry turns: each cousin is about to betray her heart to the other.

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