'Good and trusting'
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Malvina era boa e confiante, e nunca teria duvidado da innocencia de Isaura,
Malvina was good and trusting, and would never have doubted Isaura's innocence,
The narrator defends Malvina even while explaining her fall: 'boa e confiante,' good and trusting. Left to herself she would 'nunca teria duvidado da innocencia de Isaura.' Her fault is not malice but credulity — the flaw of a generous nature. The conditional 'se não fosse…' (were it not for…) is already reaching for the true culprit, named in the next line.
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