A furtive glance
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Não me olhou de rosto, mas a furto e a medo, ou, se preferes a fraseologia do agregado, oblíqua e dissimulada. As mãos pararam, depois de encravada a agulha no pano. Eu, do lado oposto da mesa, não sabia que fizesse; e outra vez me fugiram as palavras que trazia.
She did not look me in the face, but by stealth and by fear, or, if you prefer the phraseology of the agregado, oblique and dissembling. The hands stopped, after sticking the needle in the cloth. I, on the opposite side of the table, did not know what I did; and again the words I brought fled me.
The narrator describes how someone looked at him furtively and fearfully, or obliquely and dissemblingly, as the agregado would say. Her hands stopped after sticking the needle into the cloth. He, on the opposite side of the table, did not know what to do, and again the words he had brought escaped him.
The narrator describes how the woman avoided direct eye contact, looking at him furtively and fearfully, or as the agregado would say, obliquely and dissemblingly. Her hands paused after she stuck the needle into the cloth. He, on the other side of the table, was at a loss, and the words he had prepared escaped him once more.
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