'The fate that awaits me'
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Não está vendo, meo pae?... eis ali a sorte, que me espera, respondeu ella apontando para o tronco e as algemas, que ali estavam ao pé della.
Do you not see, my father?... there is the fate that awaits me, she answered, pointing to the stocks and the shackles that lay there at her feet.
Isaura answers with a gesture, not an explanation — 'apontando para o tronco e as algemas.' The iron speaks for itself; she need only point. Note the grim symmetry with Leôncio, who a few passages ago also pointed at these same instruments, telling her 'eis ali o que te espera.' Now Isaura repeats his very words — 'a sorte, que me espera' — to her father, turning the master's threat into a testimony against him. The shackles 'ao pé della', at her feet, are the fact around which the whole scene turns; where Leôncio pointed to them to command submission, Isaura points to them to summon help.
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