A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.226 · 6.226

She mingled her tears with his

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lançou-se sobre seo marido, e abraçando-se com elle estreitamente, misturáva suas lagrimas com as delle.

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threw herself upon her husband, and embracing him tightly, mingled her tears with his.

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Husband and wife weep together, reconciled by loss — a portrait of ordinary human grief. Guimarães grants the guilty their moment of tenderness, and by doing so makes the machinery that will crush Isaura all the more impersonal: no one here is a monster, and yet.

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