She had hoped he would repent
Read the full text in our reader
Ella esperava que o marido fulminado por tão doloroso golpe naquelles dias de amarga meditação e abatimento,
She had hoped that her husband, thunderstruck by so painful a blow, in those days of bitter meditation and dejection,
Now the narrator opens Malvina's hope, which makes its defeat sadder. She had imagined that grief — 'fulminado,' thunderstruck, by his father's death — would soften and chasten him, that the days of seclusion were 'amarga meditação,' bitter soul-searching. She built her expectation on his having a conscience. The tragedy is that she credited him with an inner life he does not possess.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open A Escrava Isaura 8.46 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
A Escrava Isaura 8.46 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/escravaisaura/8.46/