Yet it showed through
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Não obstante porém toda essa modestia e humildade transluzia-lhe, mesmo a despeito della,
Nonetheless, all that modesty and humility notwithstanding, there shone through in her, even in spite of herself,
The counter-turn: humility can be worn, but breeding shows anyway. Transluzir — to shine through, as light through a screen — is the perfect verb: whatever she does to dim herself, something comes through. And 'even in spite of herself' insists she is not performing; it is involuntary.
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