First gesture
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O meu primeiro gesto, em tal caso, devia ser de pena ou de riso; não foi uma nem outra coisa, porquanto e é isto que eu quisera dizer em latim), porquanto a senhora tinha as meias muito lavadas, e não as sujou, levava ligas de seda, e não as perdeu.
My first gesture, in such a case, should have been of pity or laughter; it was neither one nor the other, because (and this is what I wanted to say in Latin) because the lady had her stockings very clean, and did not soil them, she wore silk garters, and did not lose them.
The narrator reflects on his first reaction in a certain situation, which was neither pity nor laughter, because the lady kept her stockings clean and did not lose her silk garters.
The narrator reflects that his first reaction should have been pity or laughter, but it was neither, because the lady kept her stockings clean and did not lose her silk garters.
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