The father's gaze: a smile
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D. Antônio de Mariz, sentado a alguma distancia, considerava aquele lindo par, e um sorriso íntimo de felicidade expandia o seu rosto venerável.
D. Antônio de Mariz, seated some distance off, gazed at that lovely pair, and an inward smile of happiness spread over his venerable face.
D. Antônio de Mariz, seated some distance off, considered that lovely pair, and an inward smile of happiness spread over his venerable face.
The first gaze is the father's, and it is a blessing: he already sees Álvaro and Cecília married. His smile is the benign will that would join them — the reader's own hope, given a face. ('distancia' is printed unaccented in this edition; frozen as published.)
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