'What had become of Isaura?'
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O que era feito porém da nobre e infeliz Isaura
But what had become of the noble and hapless Isaura
The narrator turns from the husband's hidden glee back to its victim with a pointed question: 'O que era feito da nobre e infeliz Isaura?' — what had become of her? The pairing 'nobre e infeliz,' noble and hapless, is the novel's constant framing of Isaura: high of soul, low of fortune. The reader is pulled from the villain's triumph to the sufferer's fear.
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