A painful piece of news
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« Leoncio, tenho a dar-te uma dolorosa noticia, para a qual teo coração não podia estar preparado.
'Leôncio, I have to give you a painful piece of news, for which your heart could not be prepared.
The letter's grave, formal opening — a death announced with the period's careful cushioning. The stately prose of condolence enters the scene like a change of key, lifting the register just as the story delivers its cruelest turn.
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