Beauty and gifts of spirit
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por que a despeito de sua rara belleza e dos dotes de seo espirito,
for, in spite of her rare beauty and the gifts of her spirit,
The concessive clause sets up the proof. Rare beauty and 'dotes do espirito' — gifts of mind and soul — are exactly the things that turn most heads. Guimarães lists them precisely so he can say, in the next breath, that they never spoiled her.
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