Loved with pity
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As outras escravas a contemplavão todas com certo interesse e comiseração,
The other slave-women all gazed at her with a certain interest and compassion,
Against the heron-simile's coldness, the women themselves are warm. They watch her not with the envy the narrator might expect but with 'comiseração,' fellow-suffering pity — they can see where her beauty is leading her. The paragraph turns now to the one exception.
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