No fumes of vanity
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os fumos da vaidade não lhe entumecião o coração, nem turvavão-lhe a luz de seo natural bom senso.
the fumes of vanity did not swell her heart, nor cloud the light of her natural good sense.
Two vivid metaphors of intoxication and murk. Vanity gives off 'fumos' — fumes, vapours that go to the head and swell it — and clouds the mind like smoke over a lamp. Isaura's gifts never did that to her; her 'bom senso,' good sense, stayed clear. It is the moral centre of her likeableness.
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