'Only two people'
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Só duas pessoas poderião ter por ella commiseração e interesse; seo pae e Malvina.
Only two people could feel compassion and concern for her: her father and Malvina.
The tally of allies is brutally short: 'só duas pessoas' — only two — could feel 'commiseração e interesse,' compassion and active concern, for Isaura: Miguel and Malvina. The narrator names them only to disqualify them in the lines that follow — the father barred from the house, Malvina poisoned against her and gone. Isaura's two hopes are counted precisely so their loss can be felt.
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