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O Guarani 7.59 · 7.59

You don't ask about your errand?

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— Não me perguntais pelo que me ordenastes, D. Cecília? disse ele à meia voz.

— You don't ask me about what you ordered, D. Cecília? said he, in a low voice.

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— You do not ask me about what you ordered, D. Cecília? said he, in a low voice.

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He reaches for her attention through the errand — the commissions she asked him to bring back from the city. The low voice makes it intimate: a private transaction between them.

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