'Vast, deserted buildings'
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ficando elle quasi a sós com Isaura no meio daquelles vastos e desertos edificios.
leaving him almost alone with Isaura in the midst of those vast and deserted buildings.
The plan's aim is stated: 'quasi a sós com Isaura no meio daquelles vastos e desertos edificios' — almost alone with her amid those vast, deserted buildings. The great house of Chapter I, drawn in its opulence, is now emptied into a trap; its very size, once a mark of wealth, becomes menace — no one within earshot. The scene is set for the assault. That it will instead find an empty room is the chapter's turning irony.
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