'My heart foresaw all this'
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Não, minha filha; não serão necessarios taes extremos. Meo coração já adivinhava tudo isto, e já tenho tudo prevenido.
No, my daughter; such extremes will not be necessary. My heart already foresaw all this, and I have everything ready.
The rescue arrives, and it arrives through love's foresight: 'Meo coração já adivinhava tudo isto.' Miguel's heart, not his reason, saw this coming — the same dread that made him expect a monster made him prepare an escape. 'Já tenho tudo prevenido' — I have everything ready. Against Leôncio's 'right and force,' the father sets a quieter power: a parent's anticipatory love, which reads the danger before it strikes and moves ahead of it. The word 'coração', the heart, is the same one Isaura defended as unownable a hundred lines ago; here it is shown doing the thing no master could command it to do, loving enough to plan a deliverance.
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