The fatal but excusable weakness
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até que aconteceo-lhe a fatal, mas muito desculpavel fraqueza, que sabemos,
until there befell him the fatal, but very excusable weakness that we know of,
The 'fatal but excusable weakness we know of' — his love for the enslaved woman, Isaura's mother. The narrator's tender euphemism refuses to call love a fault; the fatality was not in the loving but in a system that made love across the color line a ruin.
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