Otherwise a slave forever
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mas se minha sorte depender sómente daquelle homem, serei para sempre escrava.
but if my fate should depend only on that man, I shall be a slave forever.'
Her clear-eyed dread, and the chapter's cruel truth in advance: if it comes down to Leôncio, she is lost. She names her fate precisely — 'escrava para sempre' — the very sentence the letter is about to hand her.
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