'It will be the same!'
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Será o mesmo! bradou Isaura levantando-se altiva, e com o accento rouco e trémulo da desesperação,
It will be the same! cried Isaura, rising up proud, in the hoarse and trembling accent of despair,
Isaura rises from her knees, and the reversal of posture is the reversal of the scene: 'levantando-se altiva' — rising up proud. The pleading is over; what follows is not a petition but a verdict. Guimarães catches the exact timbre of a resolve that terrifies even the one who holds it, 'rouco e trémulo' — hoarse and trembling — the voice of despair, not of calm. She is not composed; she is past composure, into the steadiness that lies on the far side of terror. Her body, which knelt to beg, now stands to declare, and the declaration is the darkest she has made.
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