'What will become of you?'
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Oh! felizmente ella ali está, murmurava o velho, o algôz aqui tambem andava! oh! pobre Isaura!... que será de ti!...
Oh, happily she is there, murmured the old man; the executioner had been here too! Oh, poor Isaura!... what will become of you?
Miguel takes in the room at a glance — she is safe for the moment, but 'o algôz aqui tambem andava', the executioner has been prowling here too, and he sees the shackles. His whispered 'que será de ti?' — what will become of you? — is the helpless refrain of a father who has already failed once to save her, in Cap VI, when his savings could not buy her freedom. The word 'algôz' picks up Isaura's own from her prayer; father and daughter, independently, have arrived at the same name for Leôncio. Miguel's tenderness is shadowed by dread, and it is out of exactly that dread, we will learn, that he has come with a desperate plan.
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