'Pale, undone'
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e a infeliz, pálida, desfeita, e como que hallucinada,
and the hapless girl, pale, undone, and as if hallucinating,
Three quick strokes paint the toll on her body: 'pálida, desfeita, e como que hallucinada' — pale, undone (unmade, as if her very features had come apart), and half out of her senses. 'Desfeita' is especially strong: not merely disheveled but decomposed by grief. The terror has begun to erase the composed, dignified Isaura the earlier chapters drew.
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