A shadow on the smile
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apenas notava-se no sorriso, que lhe adejava nos labios, certa expressão de melancolica resignação;
only there was to be seen, in the smile that fluttered on her lips, a certain look of melancholy resignation;
The one crack in the composure. Her smile is real, but a smile can flutter — adejava, the verb used of a bird's wings or a hovering thing — and under it Guimarães sees resignation, not contentment. The next clause will insist we read that shadow correctly.
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