A letter bordered in black
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um pajem, entrando rapidamente pela sala, entrega-lhe uma carta tarjada de preto.
a page, entering the room rapidly, hands him a letter bordered in black.
The black border says it before the words are read: a death. The mourning-letter enters like a stage messenger, and the reader knows, with a chill, whose death it announces — the very father on whose promise Isaura's freedom hangs.
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