'Nothing natural or sincere'
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Entretanto essa indifferença de Leoncio nada tinha de natural e sincera;
However, that indifference of Leôncio's had nothing natural or sincere about it;
The narrator pulls back the curtain: the whole spectacle of indifference 'nada tinha de natural e sincera' — had nothing natural or sincere in it. What looked like a wounded husband's cold restraint was theatre from first to last. The paragraph now exposes what the mask concealed.
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