In vain he tried to soften it
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Tarde e em vão procurou attenuar o terrivel effeito de sua fatal indiscrição.
Too late and in vain he tried to soften the terrible effect of his fatal indiscretion.
Too late and in vain he tried to soften the terrible effect of his fatal indiscretion.
The paragraph closes on the word that damns him gently — 'indiscrição', indiscretion. Not a crime, not a betrayal, merely a failure to hold his tongue; and yet 'fatal', deadly in its effect. Guimarães's moral is precise: in a house built on secrets and lies, even honesty, spoken carelessly, becomes a weapon.
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