'On my will!'
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— De minha vontade!... oh! não, senhor;
On my will!... oh! no, sir;
Isaura seizes on his word and rejects its premise. He said her happiness hung on her will; she throws it back — 'De minha vontade!... oh! não, senhor.' She refuses the fiction that she is a free agent choosing, and insists on the truth of her condition. It is a subtle, principled move: to accept 'will' as the frame would be to accept blame for whatever he does.
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