'Long days of mourning'
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durante esses longos dias de lucto, de consternação, de anciedades e dissabores?
during those long days of mourning, of consternation, of anxieties and troubles?
The heaped nouns — 'lucto, consternação, anciedades e dissabores' — pile the atmosphere of the household onto Isaura, who has no rank to shield her from any of it. The same days that Leôncio spent scheming in secret joy, Isaura spent in dread. The parallel is deliberate: the master's mourning is a mask, the slave's is real.
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