How much more she'd have pitied her
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Com quanto mais dó não a teria lastimado sua boa e sensivel senhora,
With how much more pity her kind and tender mistress would have grieved for her,
With how much more pity her kind and tender mistress would have grieved for her,
The chapter's last movement is a wistful counter-factual: had Malvina known the truth, her sympathy would have been deeper still. It quietly redeems Malvina — she is 'boa e sensivel', capable of real compassion — while sharpening the tragedy, because the very love that would console Isaura is the love her silence must refuse. Kindness and truth are kept apart by the machinery of the house.
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