He longed for her voice
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Álvaro, desejoso de ouvir a voz doce e argentina de Cecília, da qual ele tinha saudade pelo muito tempo que não a escutava, procurou um pretexto que a chamasse à conversa.
Álvaro, longing to hear Cecília's sweet, silvery voice — which he missed, from the long time he had not heard it — sought a pretext to draw her into the conversation.
Álvaro, longing to hear Cecília's sweet, silvery voice — which he missed, for the long time he had not heard it — sought a pretext to draw her into the conversation.
'Saudade' — the untranslatable ache of missing — for the mere sound of her voice. His stratagem, the Peri anecdote, is a lover's device to make her speak.
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