Poor Isaura
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Pobre Isaura! sempre e em toda parte esta continua importunação de senhores e de escravos, que não a deixão socegar um só momento!
Poor Isaura! always and everywhere this ceaseless pestering by masters and slaves alike, who won't let her rest a single moment!
The narrator steps forward in open sympathy — 'Pobre Isaura!' — and draws the pattern of the whole chapter to a point: she is beset 'de senhores e de escravos,' by masters and slaves alike. The insight is levelling and bleak: the pursuit crosses every line of rank. High and low, the men of the house agree on one thing, that she is available to them.
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