'Neither the means nor the courage will fail me'
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já vejo que me é destinada a mesma sorte. Mas fique certo, de que não me faltarão nem os meios nem a coragem para ficar para sempre livre do senhor e do mundo.
I already see the same fate is destined for me. But be assured that neither the means nor the courage will fail me to be free of you and of the world forever.
Beneath the courage is a resolve the period reader would have understood at once: 'não me faltarão nem os meios nem a coragem para ficar para sempre livre do senhor e do mundo.' To be free of the world forever is death, and Isaura is quietly declaring she will take her own life before submission. It is the darkest turn of her defiance and the source of the knife she will beg from her father a few passages on. Guimarães handles it without melodrama; she does not rave, she states a fact she has already made peace with. Her one remaining freedom, when every other has been stripped away, is the freedom to end.
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