Whip and toil killed her
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Também Juliana pouco durou; perahy e serviço deo co’ela na cova em pouco tempo.
'And Juliana too lasted little; the whip and the labour put her in her grave in no time.'
The end is told without drama, which makes it worse: 'the whip and the labour put her in her grave.' No single blow, just the ordinary machinery of the fazenda applied to a woman who resisted, until she died. It is murder by routine — and it is what tia Joaquina fears is now aimed at Isaura.
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