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