'His soul was swimming'
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em que nadava a alma de seo marido.
in which her husband's soul was swimming.
The paragraph ends on a vivid image of immersion: his soul 'nadava,' was swimming, awash in secret jubilation. The verb makes the joy an element he floats in, total and enveloping — the exact opposite of the dry boredom he displayed. The chapter has stripped him bare for the reader while leaving Malvina, and Isaura, still in the dark.
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