The furniture
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Cadeiras de couro de alto espaldar, uma mesa de jacarandá de pés torneados, uma lampada de prata suspensa ao tecto por uma corrente, constituião a mobilia dessa sala, que respirava um ar severo e triste.
Leather chairs with high backs, a jacaranda table with turned legs, a silver lamp hung from the ceiling by a chain, made up the furniture of that room, which breathed a stern and sad air.
High-backed leather chairs, a jacaranda table on turned legs, a silver lamp on a chain — the furnishings of a room that breathed a stern, sad air.
Dark native wood, heavy leather, a single hanging lamp: the hall is furnished for gravity, not comfort. Alencar closes the description of the family's public room on the word triste — a house of honor and duty, its severity a portrait of Dom Antonio de Mariz himself.
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