Isabel's cold blessing
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Isabel tocou com os lábios a mão de seu tio, e curvou-se em face de D. Lauriana para receber uma bênção lançada com a dignidade e altivez de um abade.
Isabel touched her uncle's hand with her lips, and bowed before D. Lauriana to receive a blessing bestowed with the dignity and haughtiness of an abbot.
Isabel touched with her lips her uncle's hand, and bowed before D. Lauriana to receive a blessing bestowed with the dignity and haughtiness of an abbot.
The contrast bites: Cecília gets kisses; Isabel gets a cold, condescending blessing 'with the haughtiness of an abbot.' The niece's inferior place in the house — the wound of Chapter VI — is enacted again at bedtime.
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