'Born a captive'
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Meo Deos! meo Deos!... já que tive a desgraça de nascer captiva,
My God! my God!... since I had the misfortune to be born a captive,
The lament reaches its deepest question, and it opens on the fact that governs everything: 'nascer captiva,' to be born a slave. It is 'a desgraça,' the misfortune — not a fault, not a punishment, but sheer bad fortune of birth, the arbitrary sentence the novel means its readers to feel as monstrous.
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