The family's short evening
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Depois, a família chegando-se para junto da porta, dispôs-se a passar um desses curtos serões que outrora precediam à simples mas suculenta ceia.
Then the family, drawing near the door, settled to pass one of those short evening-sittings that once used to precede the simple but hearty supper.
Then the family, drawing near the door, settled to pass one of those short evening-sittings that once used to precede the simple but hearty supper.
'Once used to' — Alencar looks back fondly from 1857 to the vanished custom of the serão, the family evening. The scene domesticates: from cosmic sunset to the warm circle by the door.
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