A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 8.116 · 8.116

'The reading of the letter'

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Desde que ouviu a leitura da carta, em que se noticiava a morte do commendador,

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From the moment she heard the reading of the letter, in which the commendador's death was announced,

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The narrator dates Isaura's despair precisely to the letter of Chapter VI — the news of old Almeida's death. For Malvina and Leôncio that death rearranged a fortune; for Isaura it removed the one authority whose promise might have freed her. The same event that loosed Leôncio's 'last fetters' snapped shut Isaura's last hope.

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