A vain effort at fierceness
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e fazendo vãos esforços para dar ao seo lindo e mavioso semblante um ar feroz,
and making vain efforts to give her lovely, gentle face a fierce look,
The narrator can't help siding with her tenderness: 'lindo e mavioso semblante,' a face too gentle to hold anger. Her failure to look fierce is a portrait of her nature — this is a woman built for love, straining against a role she was never made for.
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