A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 8.72 · 8.72

'A very good man'

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tem o pae, que é homem muito de bem, e acaba de dar provas de quanto adora sua filha.

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she has her father, who is a very good man, and has just given proof of how he adores his daughter.

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'Homem muito de bem' — a thoroughly good, upright man — is Malvina's plain estimate of Miguel, and she grounds it in the fresh proof: he has just come with a fortune scraped together to buy his child free. Against Leôncio's abstractions she sets a concrete act of love, 'quanto adora sua filha,' how much he adores his daughter.

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