But at what price!
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mas por que preço! meo Deos!... nem me atrevo a lhe contar.
but at what a price! my God!... I dare not even tell you.
The price was her body — she cannot say it aloud. The reticence tells everything: the 'freedom' others offered was purchase of a different kind. Guimarães lets the unspeakable stay unspoken, and the silence indicts more than words could.
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