A deathly pallor
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Ao ouvir esta resposta o rosto de Malvina cobrio-se de palidez mortal;
On hearing this reply, Malvina's face was covered with a deathly pallor;
The body registers what the mind cannot yet accept. 'Palidez mortal,' a deathly pallor, floods her face — the blood drains as the truth arrives: her husband will do nothing, and the calm was contempt. Guimarães writes her collapse from the outside in, beginning with the visible sign.
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