No matter — she is worth more
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— mas não importa!... ella vale muito mais do que isso.
'but it does not matter!... she is worth far more than that.'
The father's answer to an obscene price is to raise the true value: no sum is too high, because she is worth more than any of it. Where the master reduces Isaura to a figure, Miguel makes the figure irrelevant against her worth.
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