'An almost sisterly intimacy'
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que antes havia tratado com carinho e intimidade quasi fraternal.
whom she had before treated with affection and an almost sisterly intimacy.
The paragraph ends on the measure of the loss: their bond had been one of 'carinho e intimidade quasi fraternal,' affection and an almost sisterly closeness. That word 'fraternal' recalls Leôncio's own argument — that Isaura was raised 'como uma filha da familia' — and turns it back on the tragedy: the sisterly love the household boasted of is precisely what jealousy now destroys, leaving Isaura wholly alone as the chapter drives to its climax.
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