'If you had a soul'
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se tivesses alma, Leoncio, terias considerado Isaura como tua irmã,
if you had a soul, Leôncio, you would have regarded Isaura as your sister,
The reproach cuts to the bone: 'se tivesses alma,' if you had a soul — she tells her husband, plainly, that he has none. And the claim she makes is radical for 1875: that he should have held Isaura 'como tua irmã,' as his sister — a slave and a master as siblings, equals in the family's love. It is Malvina's decency and the novel's abolitionist heart speaking through her outrage.
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