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O Guarani 6.52 · 6.52

You spoke so sternly

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— Faláveis a D. Diogo com um ar tão severo! disse D. Lauriana descendo os degraus da porta, e vindo ao encontro de seu marido.

— You were speaking to D. Diogo with such a stern air! said D. Lauriana, coming down the steps and going to meet her husband.

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The setting

D. Lauriana comes down the steps to meet her husband, reproaching him for the stern air with which he spoke to D. Diogo.

A note on this passage

The mother enters exactly as the sentence lands. Her first word is reproach — the contest between the two parents' loves is joined.

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