Parei no corredor
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Parei no corredor, a tomar fôlego; buscava esquecer o defunto, pálido e disforme, e o mais que não disse para não dar a estas páginas um aspecto repugnante, mas podes imaginá-lo.
I stopped in the corridor to catch my breath; I sought to forget the corpse, pale and deformed, and what more I did not say so as not to give these pages a repugnant aspect, but you can imagine it.
The narrator pauses in the corridor to catch his breath, trying to forget the corpse and other unpleasant details.
The narrator pauses in the hallway to recover, trying to block out the memory of the corpse and other unpleasant details he omits from the text, but implies the reader can infer them.
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