Her merry temper returns
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Com efeito, aquela doce languidez com que se embalançava há pouco, cismando em mil coisas, tinha desaparecido completamente: seu gênio de menina alegre e feiticeira havia cedido um momento ao enlevo, mas voltava de novo.
Indeed, that sweet languor with which she had swayed a little while ago, musing on a thousand things, had vanished completely: her merry, bewitching girl's temper had yielded a moment to the reverie, but returned anew.
Chapter V. The sisterhood is sealed with a game; Cecília's high spirits return, and she calls the turtledove with a girl's mimicry of its song.
Alencar closes the loop on the chapter's opening image — the languid swaying, the thousand vague thoughts — and dispels it. The dream was a passing weather across a fundamentally sunny nature; her cheerfulness is the ground state to which she always returns.
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