They respect you
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— Já te disse por vezes que é uma desconfiança tua; todos te querem, e te respeitam como devem.
"I've told you many times that it's a suspicion of yours; everyone loves you, and respects you as they should."
Chapter V. The talk darkens: Isabel, of mixed birth, turns Cecília's tenderness for the 'tame Indian' into a wound about how she herself is seen.
Cecília's reassurance is kindly and, the reader senses, not quite true — the innocence that cannot see cruelty is a blindness as well as a virtue. She loves her cousin too much to admit that the disdain Isabel feels is real.
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