'No grief at all'
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não que elle sentisse pezar algum pela brusca partida de sua mulher;
not that he felt any grief at his wife's abrupt departure;
The narrator forecloses the charitable reading: it was 'não que elle sentisse pezar algum' — not that he felt the least grief — at his wife's sudden going. The stillness was not stoic sorrow held in check. Whatever the composure hid, it was not pain.
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