The two he could not protect
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como por amor das duas infelizes creaturas, que não podia proteger contra a sanha de um senhor perverso e brutal.
as for love of the two unhappy creatures whom he could not protect against the fury of a perverse and brutal master.
The two he had to leave behind — Isaura's mother and Isaura herself — abandoned to a 'perverse and brutal' owner. Here the novel's charge is laid bare: the helplessness of love before ownership, a father unable to shield his own child because she is another man's property.
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