'Feigned unconcern'
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Com aquelle fingido pouco caso, conseguia disfarçar o prazer e satisfação,
With that feigned unconcern, he managed to disguise the pleasure and satisfaction
'Pouco caso' — making little of a thing, treating it as beneath notice — names the exact register of his performance. It was 'fingido,' feigned, and it worked: it 'disfarçava' his real 'prazer e satisfação.' The show of caring nothing is precisely the mask for caring, in the worst way, a great deal.
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