The angels bear the prayer up
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Os anjos do céo, que por certo naquelle instante adejavão em torno della agitando as azas de ouro e carmim, não podião deixar de levar tão fervida e dolorosa prece aos pés do throno da Consoladora dos afflictos.
The angels of heaven, who surely at that instant hovered about her, beating their wings of gold and crimson, could not but carry so fervid and sorrowful a prayer to the foot of the throne of the Consoler of the afflicted.
The chapter's cruelty ends on a vision of assurance. The angels, 'de ouro e carmim' — gold and crimson, the palette of Baroque altarpieces — cannot fail to bear Isaura's prayer 'aos pés do throno da Consoladora dos afflictos', to the throne of the Comforter of the afflicted. After a whole chapter in which no earthly power would help her, the narrator insists that a heavenly one has heard. And the promise is about to be kept in the plainest way: the very next paragraph brings not an angel but her old father Miguel, stepping softly into the room with a plan of escape. Guimarães lets the reader believe the prayer is answered, and then answers it through a mortal man — heaven's mercy arriving on a father's cautious feet.
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