'Such kindness and affection'
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Malvina, que sempre a havia tratado com tanta bondade e carinho,
Malvina, who had always treated her with such kindness and affection,
The narrator turns to the second, and greater, hope — and prepares its loss by first recalling what it had been. Malvina had 'sempre a havia tratado com tanta bondade e carinho,' always treated Isaura with such kindness and affection. The perfect tense, and the word 'sempre,' set up the reversal: everything that follows is the undoing of this.
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