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— Vai-te bem o consolar-me; mas tu mesma tens visto se eu tenho razão.
"It's like you to console me; but you yourself have seen whether I am right."
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.
Isabel accepts the kindness and refuses the conclusion — a gentle, unanswerable last word. She appeals to what Cecília has actually witnessed against what Cecília wants to believe, and the reader, who has seen the household too, knows which is the truer account.
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