The whole weight of her spite
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jurou descarregar todo o peso de seo rancor sobre a pessoa de sua infeliz rival.
she swore to unload the whole weight of her rancour upon the person of her unhappy rival.
The sentence closes the explanation the narrator promised 'in two words,' and its verb is physical: 'descarregar,' to unload, as one unloads a cart or fires off a charge. All the stored weight of a real grief is aimed at Isaura, who did nothing. Guimarães calls her 'infeliz' — unhappy, luckless — reminding us that the rival, too, is a victim, caught in a hatred she never earned.
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