'She feigned satisfaction'
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fingio-se satisfeita e retirou-se sem dar mostras de agastamento.
she feigned herself satisfied and withdrew without showing signs of vexation.
Malvina answers dissimulation with dissimulation: she 'fingio-se satisfeita,' pretended to be satisfied, and left masking her 'agastamento,' her vexation. It is dignity and self-protection at once — she will not give him the satisfaction of her visible anger. But the concealment cannot hold, and the narrator has already told us so.
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