Portuguese–English parallel text
O Cabuliwallah
The Cabuliwallah
Rabindranath Tagore
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Minha filha de cinco anos, Mini, não consegue viver sem falar sem parar. Eu realmente acredito que em toda a vida dela ela não desperdiçou um minuto em silêncio. A mãe dela costuma se irritar com isso e queria acabar com a tagarelice dela, mas eu não.
My five years’ old daughter Mini cannot live without chattering. I really believe that in all her life she has not wasted a minute in silence. Her mother is often vexed at this, and would stop her prattle, but I would not.
Ver Mini quieta não é natural, e não consigo suportar isso por muito tempo. Por isso, minhas conversas com ela são sempre animadas.
To see Mini quiet is unnatural, and I cannot bear it long. And so my own talk with her is always lively.
Certa manhã, por exemplo, quando eu estava no meio do décimo sétimo capítulo do meu novo romance, minha pequena Mini entrou de mansinho no quarto e, colocando a mão na minha, disse: “Pai! Ramdayal, o porteiro, chama o corvo de crôvo!
One morning, for instance, when I was in the midst of the seventeenth chapter of my new novel, my little Mini stole into the room, and putting her hand into mine, said: “Father! Ramdayal the door-keeper calls a crow a krow!
Ele não sabe nada, não é?”
He doesn’t know anything, does he?”
Antes que eu pudesse explicar para ela as diferenças de linguagem neste mundo, ela já tinha mergulhado com tudo em outro assunto. “O que você acha, Pai?
Before I could explain to her the differences of language in this world, she was embarked on the full tide of another subject. “What do you think, Father?
Bhola diz que tem um elefante nas nuvens jogando água pela tromba, e é por isso que chove!”
Bhola says there is an elephant in the clouds, blowing water out of his trunk, and that is why it rains!”
E então, mudando de assunto de novo, enquanto eu ainda tentava preparar uma resposta para essa última frase: “Pai! Que parentesco a Mamãe tem com você?”
And then, darting off anew, while I sat still making ready some reply to this last saying, “Father! what relation is Mother to you?”
“Minha querida cunhadinha!”, murmurei sem querer para mim mesmo, mas, com uma expressão séria, consegui responder: “Vá brincar com Bhola, Mini! Estou ocupado!”
“My dear little sister in the law!” I murmured involuntarily to myself, but with a grave face contrived to answer: “Go and play with Bhola, Mini! I am busy!”
A janela do meu quarto dá para a rua. A menina tinha se sentado aos meus pés, perto da minha mesa, e estava brincando baixinho, batucando nos joelhos.
The window of my room overlooks the road. The child had seated herself at my feet near my table, and was playing softly, drumming on her knees.
Eu estava trabalhando duro no meu décimo sétimo capítulo, onde Protrap Singh, o herói, tinha acabado de pegar Kanchanlata, a heroína, nos braços, e estava prestes a fugir com ela pela janela do terceiro andar do castelo, quando de repente Mini largou a brincadeira e correu para a janela, gritando: “Um Cabuliwallah! Um Cabuliwallah!”
I was hard at work on my seventeenth chapter, where Protrap Singh, the hero, had just caught Kanchanlata, the heroine, in his arms, and was about to escape with her by the third story window of the castle, when all of a sudden Mini left her play, and ran to the window, crying, “A Cabuliwallah! a Cabuliwallah!”
De fato, na rua lá embaixo estava um Cabuliwallah, passando devagar. Ele usava as roupas largas e sujas do seu povo, com um turbante alto; tinha uma sacola nas costas e carregava caixas de uvas na mão.
Sure enough in the street below was a Cabuliwallah, passing slowly along. He wore the loose soiled clothing of his people, with a tall turban; there was a bag on his back, and he carried boxes of grapes in his hand.
Não sei dizer o que minha filha sentiu ao ver aquele homem, mas ela começou a chamá-lo em voz alta. “Ah!”, pensei, “ele vai entrar, e meu décimo sétimo capítulo nunca vai ficar pronto!”
I cannot tell what were my daughter’s feelings at the sight of this man, but she began to call him loudly. “Ah!” I thought, “he will come in, and my seventeenth chapter will never be finished!”
Nesse exato momento, o Cabuliwallah se virou e olhou para a menina. Quando viu isso, tomada de terror, ela fugiu para a proteção da mãe e desapareceu.
At which exact moment the Cabuliwallah turned, and looked up at the child. When she saw this, overcome by terror, she fled to her mother’s protection, and disappeared.
Ela acreditava piamente que, dentro da sacola que o homem grande carregava, talvez houvesse duas ou três outras crianças como ela. Enquanto isso, o vendedor entrou pela minha porta e me cumprimentou com um sorriso.
She had a blind belief that inside the bag, which the big man carried, there were perhaps two or three other children like herself. The pedlar meanwhile entered my doorway, and greeted me with a smiling face.
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