No time to grieve
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Isaura não teve muito tempo para dar larga expansão ás suas angustiosas reflexões.
Isaura did not have much time to give full vent to her anguished reflections.
The lament is cut short by the world. 'Dar larga expansão' — to give wide vent — is what grief needs and what she is never allowed; solitude for the enslaved is only ever a brief accident between demands. The sentence's very brevity enacts the interruption it describes.
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