'A defenceless victim'
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a entregava victima indefesa entre as mãos de seo tenaz e desalmado perseguidor.
was delivering her, a defenceless victim, into the hands of her tenacious and soulless persecutor.
The sentence closes on the full horror: fate hands her over 'victima indefesa,' a defenceless victim, to a 'tenaz e desalmado perseguidor,' a tenacious and soulless persecutor. 'Desalmado' — literally un-souled — is the exact moral inverse of the tender-souled Malvina; Leôncio has emptied himself of the very thing that would make him spare her. Isaura sees she is prey, and the hunter has no heart to appeal to.
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