'A mortal dread'
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Um cruel desalento, um pavor mortal apoderou-se de seo espirito,
A cruel despondency, a mortal dread seized her spirit,
The abstractions are made agents: 'desalento' and 'pavor mortal' — despondency and a deadly dread — 'apoderou-se de seo espirito,' took possession of her spirit, as an army takes a town. Fear is not something she feels but something that occupies her. The verb 'apoderar-se' (to take power over) is precise: her own mind is no longer her own.
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