'The most atrocious martyrdom'
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senão resignar-se e preparar-se para o mais atroz dos martyrios.
but to resign herself and prepare for the most atrocious of martyrdoms.
The only 'remedy' she can find is not escape but endurance: 'resignar-se e preparar-se para o mais atroz dos martyrios' — to resign herself and prepare for the most atrocious of martyrdoms. 'Martyrio' recasts her suffering as martyrdom, a witness borne for virtue's sake. She chooses to suffer rather than yield, and steels herself for the cost — the same resolve unto death she formed back in Chapter IV.
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