Now we'll see what captivity is
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— agora que sinhô velho morreo, e que sinhá Malvina foi-se embora para a casa de seo pae della, é que nós vamos ver o que é rigor de captiveiro.
'now that old master is dead and mistress Malvina has gone off to her father's house, we shall see what the harshness of captivity is.'
Here is the chapter's engine, spoken plainly: the two people who softened the plantation — the old master and Malvina — are gone, and now the machine runs without a brake. Tia Joaquina names what the reader has felt coming since Cap. VI: with no restraint left, Leôncio's cruelty has a clear field.
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