Good overseer Miguel
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Nesse tempo o feitor era esse siô Miguel, que anda ahi, e que é pai de Isaura.
'In those days the overseer was that Mr. Miguel who goes about here, Isaura's father.'
The backstory clicks into place: Miguel, the sad old man of Cap. VI who came to buy his daughter's freedom, was once the fazenda's overseer — and Juliana's love. The reader now understands why he weeps for Isaura: she is his own child by the woman the master destroyed. Guimarães lets the senzala's memory supply what the plot only hinted.
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