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O Guarani 8.25 · 8.25

It's an arrival day

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— É um dia de chegada, sr. escudeiro; e deveis levá-lo em conta, acudiu Rui Soeiro.

— It's an arrival day, master squire; and you must take that into account, put in Rui Soeiro.

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— It's a day of arrival, master squire; and you must take that into account, put in Rui Soeiro.

A note on this passage

The men plead the occasion — a homecoming deserves noise and wine. Their easy back-talk shows the loose, comradely discipline of the frontier band.

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