Eyelids like veils
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e as palpebras meio cerradas eram como véos melancolicos,
and her half-closed eyelids were like melancholy veils,
The second simile deepens the first. Her lowered lids are 'véos melancolicos,' melancholy veils, and a veil both conceals and beautifies. What they curtain is not sleep but sorrow, and the next clause plunges us behind them into the depth they hide.
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