In mourning! What can it be!
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— De luto!... meo Deos!... que será!— exclamou Leoncio, pálido e trémulo, abrindo a carta,
'In mourning!... my God!... what can it be!' exclaimed Leôncio, pale and trembling, opening the letter,
The black border read at a glance — 'de luto,' in mourning. His alarm is genuine: whatever else Leôncio is, the news is a real shock. And the reader, ahead of him, already feels the double weight — a death, and an escape.
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