Portuguese–English parallel text
Pelo Rio
Along the River
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Por um segundo, Ana e o homem olharam um para o outro. Depois ele virou e se afastou rápido, pelo caminho do rio, para a esquerda.
For one second, Ana and the man looked at each other. Then he turned and walked away fast, along the river path, to the left.
“Não, não, não”, disse Ana. Ela não pensou. Ela correu para fora do quarto e desceu as escadas de suéter e seus tênis velhos. Ela não pegou um casaco.
“No, no, no,” Ana said. She didn’t think. She ran out of her room and down the stairs in her jumper and her old trainers. She didn’t take a coat.
Na padaria, o rádio estava ligado e Walter estava no forno de costas para ela. Ele não ouviu ela. Crumb olhou do chão, mas não latiu. Ana abriu a porta dos fundos com muito cuidado e saiu.
In the bakery, the radio was on and Walter was at the oven with his back to her. He didn’t hear her. Crumb looked up from the floor, but he didn’t bark. Ana opened the back door very quietly and went out.
Estava muito frio lá fora. O quadrado de papel dobrado estava no degrau. Ana não parou por causa dele. Ela correu pelo caminho do rio, para a esquerda, no mesmo caminho do homem.
It was very cold outside. The folded paper square was on the step. Ana didn’t stop for it. She ran along the river path, to the left, the same way as the man.
O caminho era escuro. Não tinha luzes lá, só a lua. Ana conseguia ouvir o rio e os próprios pés nas pedras. Ela não conseguia ver o homem.
The path was dark. There were no lights there, only the moon. Ana could hear the river, and her own feet on the stones. She couldn’t see the man.
“Oi?”, ela chamou. “Espera! Por favor! Eu só quero conversar!”
“Hello?” she called. “Wait! Please! I only want to talk!”
Ninguém respondeu. Ela continuou correndo. Depois de cinco minutos, o caminho foi para a esquerda, longe do rio. Agora tinha água dos dois lados. Era o canal.
Nobody answered. She ran on. After five minutes, the path went left, away from the river. Now there was water on both sides. It was the canal.
Tinha barcos ao longo do canal, um atrás do outro. Ana lembrou deles do passeio com Jess: o barco vermelho com as flores, o barco azul com a bicicleta. Na noite, todos pareciam pretos.
There were narrowboats along the canal, one after the other. Ana remembered them from her walk with Jess: the red boat with the flowers, the blue boat with the bicycle. In the night, they all looked black.
Ela parou. Ela escutou. Um cachorro latiu longe. A água se moveu contra um barco. Mas não tinha passos no caminho. O homem sumiu.
She stopped. She listened. A dog barked far away. Water moved against a boat. But there were no steps on the path. The man was gone.
Ana andou devagar ao lado dos barcos. A maioria estava no escuro. Em um barco, uma luz pequena estava acesa, e ela conseguia ouvir música. Em outro barco, alguém estava roncando.
Ana walked slowly along the boats. Most of them were dark. On one boat, a small light was on, and she could hear music. On another boat, somebody was snoring.
Depois ela viu o barco verde-escuro e calmo. Ela lembrou dele também. Ela parou na frente dele.
Then she saw the quiet dark green boat. She remembered it too. She stopped in front of it.
No teto, não tinha só um quadrado de papel agora. Tinha cinco ou seis, em uma linha certinha, embaixo de uma pedra. Eles estavam molhados da chuva. Quadrados de papel marrom, todos iguais.
On the roof, there wasn’t only one paper square now. There were five or six, in a neat line, under a stone. They were wet from the rain. Brown paper squares, all the same.
Não tinha luz no barco. As cortinas estavam fechadas. Ana ficou lá por muito tempo. Ele estava dentro? Ele estava olhando para ela agora, de trás das cortinas?
There was no light in the boat. The curtains were closed. Ana stood there for a long time. Was he inside? Was he looking at her now, from behind the curtains?
Ela queria bater na porta. Ela levantou a mão. Depois ela parou. Eram três e meia da manhã. Ela estava sozinha, de suéter, na porta de um estranho.
She wanted to knock on the door. She lifted her hand. Then she stopped. It was half past three in the morning. She was alone, in her jumper, at a stranger’s door.
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