'She insisted again'
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tão cheia de anciedade e desgosto, e no outro dia insistio ainda com mais força sobre o mesmo objecto.
so full of anxiety and distress, and the next day she insisted still more forcefully on the same subject.
The 'anciedade e desgosto' — anxiety and distress — that fill her push Malvina to return to the charge 'com mais força,' with more force. She cannot let it lie because Isaura's freedom is bound up with her own moral survival in this marriage. Persistence is her only weapon against a husband who counts on her wearing down.
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