A thundering voice
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quando uma voz áspera e atroadora, que partindo da porta do salão retumbou por todo elle, veio pôr termo á conversação das fiandeiras.
when a harsh, thundering voice, issuing from the hall door and booming through the whole room, put an end to the spinners' talk.
Power enters as sound before it enters as a body — a harsh, thundering voice that ends the conversation the way a hand snuffs a candle. The women's whole world of talk, memory and judgement is silenced in a syllable. It is the overseer at the door, and the chapter turns from the chorus to the story's cruel machinery.
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