Malvina and Henrique at the window
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Malvina e Henrique, debruçados a uma janella, conversavão entre si em voz baixa.
Malvina and Henrique, leaning at a window, talked between themselves in low voices.
The tableau composes itself: the brother and sister murmuring aside at the window, the room arranged like a stage. Guimarães sets each figure in place so the sudden entrance of Isaura, and then the letter, will land like a turn in a play.
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