A stir and a murmur
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Os tres interlocutores de Alvaro, bem como muitas outras pessoas, que por ali se achavão, puserão-se em ala para verem passar Elvira, cuja presença causava sensação e murmurinho, mesmo entre os que não estavão prevenidos.
Álvaro's three companions, like many other people who happened to be there, drew up in a line to watch Elvira pass, whose presence caused a stir and a murmur, even among those who had not been forewarned.
Isaura's entrance produces exactly the effect her whole existence has been arranged to avoid: 'sensação e murmurinho', a sensation and a murmur, running through the room 'mesmo entre os que não estavão prevenidos' — even among those not primed to notice her. The crowd draws up 'em ala', in a lane, to watch her pass, as if for a procession; she moves through a corridor of staring faces. The beauty that is her one treasure and her chief peril here does its work in the open, drawing the eyes of an entire ballroom. Every one of those murmuring strangers now carries away an image of her face. Guimarády ends the movement on this quiet dread: the fugitive has been made the sensation of the season, and among all the eyes she has drawn, the plot has only to supply one that has seen her before.
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