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Boa noite, senhor Anselmo!... boa noite, D. Elvira!... felizmente eil-os aqui! isto dizia Alvaro aos recemchegados, separando-se de seos amigos, e apressurando-se para cumprimentar a aquelles com toda a amabilidade e cortezia.
Good evening, Senhor Anselmo!... good evening, Dona Elvira!... happily, here you are! — thus said Álvaro to the new arrivals, breaking away from his friends and hastening to greet them with all amiability and courtesy.
The names arrive at last, but they are the false ones: 'senhor Anselmo' and 'D. Elvira', the aliases under which Miguel and Isaura move through the world. Hearing Álvaro greet them so warmly, the reader feels the double vision the whole chapter has built — we know these are not their names, and that the warmth of the greeting draws every eye in the room to the very people who most need to be unremarked. 'D.', Dona, confers on the fugitive slave the honorific of a lady; the disguise is socially complete. Álvaro's eager courtesy, breaking from his friends to rush to them, is love made visible, and it is also, helplessly, the spotlight. Every gracious thing he does places Isaura more fully in view.
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