A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 9.21 · 9.21

'Malvina has left'

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Malvina por motivos, que sem duvida terás adivinhado, acaba de abandonar-me, e retirou-se para a casa de seo pae.

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Malvina, for reasons you have doubtless guessed, has just left me, and withdrawn to her father's house.

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He states the second pillar of his new freedom: Malvina 'acaba de abandonar-me,' has just left, gone to her father's house. The aside 'que sem duvida terás adivinhado,' which you have doubtless guessed, is chillingly casual — he assumes Isaura knows the flight was over her, and feels no shame in it. Every fact he recites is a wall closing around her: the father dead, the wife gone, the house his.

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