'Smoking his cigar'
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e recostado ao alpendre, fumando indolentemente o seo charuto,
and, reclining against the porch, indolently smoking his cigar,
The image is complete and damning: 'recostado ao alpendre, fumando indolentemente o seo charuto' — lounging against the veranda, lazily smoking. The planter's leisured ease becomes an act of contempt; while his wife's world collapses, he performs boredom. The cigar is the perfect prop of a man playing at not caring.
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