The miniature portrait
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Não consentiu em fotografar-se, como a pequena lhe pedia, para lhe dar um retrato; mas tinha uma miniatura, feita aos vinte e cinco anos, e depois de algumas hesitações, resolveu dar-lha. Os olhos de Capitu, quando recebeu o mimo, não se descrevem; não eram oblíquos, nem de ressaca, eram direitos, claros, lúcidos.
He did not consent to be photographed, as the little girl asked him, to give her a portrait; but he had a miniature, made at twenty-five years, and after some hesitations, resolved to give it to her. The eyes of Capitu, when she received the gift, are not described; they were not oblique, nor of undertow, they were straight, clear, lucid.
He did not consent to be photographed, as the little girl asked, to give her a portrait; but he had a miniature, made at age twenty-five, and, after some hesitation, decided to give it to her.
The narrator describes how the old man refused to be photographed but gave Capitu a miniature portrait, and her eyes at that moment were not sly or mysterious but direct and clear.
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