'Left utterly helpless'
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quando vio partir sua senhora, deixando-a inteiramente ao desamparo,
when she saw her mistress depart, leaving her utterly helpless,
The catastrophe arrives at the sight of the departure: 'quando vio partir sua senhora, deixando-a inteiramente ao desamparo.' 'Desamparo' — the state of being un-sheltered, abandoned to one's fate — is the exact opposite of the 'amparo,' the shelter, Malvina gave merely by staying. The word closes the loop with 'amparava' three sentences earlier: the shelter has become abandonment.
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