But it was not so
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Entretanto, não era assim.
However, it was not so.
Three words demolish the whole scene of mourning. 'Não era assim' — it was not so. The narrator, who sees into his characters, refuses to let the reader be taken in by Leôncio's seclusion, and pivots to expose what the closed door really hid.
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