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O dinheiro, que não servio para alcançar a tua liberdade, vae agora prestar-nos para arrancar-te ás garras desse monstro.
The money that did not serve to win your freedom will now avail us to tear you from the claws of that monster.
The money reappears — the savings Miguel offered in Cap VI to buy Isaura's freedom, which Leôncio scornfully refused. Denied its lawful purpose, it will now serve an unlawful one: 'arrancar-te ás garras desse monstro', to tear her from the monster's claws. There is quiet justice in it. Leôncio would not sell her liberty; so the same coins will steal it. The word 'garras', claws, links Miguel's speech to Isaura's prayer, where she begged the Virgin to free her 'das garras de um algôz'; father and heaven are, in effect, answering the same plea. What could not be bought openly will be won by flight, and the refused ransom becomes the price of escape.
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