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 1    1,    2|             had just happened was a proof of this. At an angular distance
 2    1,   20|            Joam, “that you hold the proof of his innocence, and are
 3    1,   20|          know was that the material proof of the innocence of the
 4    1,   20|     fazender existed, and that this proof was in the hands of Torres.
 5    1,   20|             himself the use of this proof, which, if the adventurer
 6    2,    2|           his second son.”~“And the proof of his innocence my father
 7    2,    2|             one day produce?”~“That proof, Benito, lies wholly in
 8    2,    3|          for he had no new material proof of his innocence to bring
 9    2,    3|             he is taking is a fresh proof of his innocence, a moral
10    2,    3|           of his innocence, a moral proof, even if he brings me others,
11    2,    4|        evidently hard of heart, and proof against all surprise.~At
12    2,    4| presumptions. Have you any material proof?”~“Perhaps I have,” answered
13    2,    5|             man who can furnish the proof of a prisoner’s innocence
14    2,    5|            least is living, and the proof, written throughout in the
15    2,    5|           in his hands the material proof of Joam Dacosta’s innocence.
16    2,    5|           say, Torres possesses the proof of your innocence, do all
17    2,    5|            everything, so that that proof can be produced in time.
18    2,    6|           which formed the material proof of his innocence.~Had he
19    2,    6|              Torres, possessed this proof, Benito would have been
20    2,    7|             judge, of this material proof of his innocence? Why, in
21    2,    7|        Torres had declared that the proof of the innocence of the
22    2,    7|           the less certain that the proof of this innocence exists,
23    2,    8|             life or death—that this proof of Joam Dacosta’s innocence
24    2,   11|          Dacosta? Was this material proof of the convict’s innocence
25    2,   12|        there is therein written the proof I shall never be able to
26    2,   12|             to produce. But if that proof escapes me, if the whole
27    2,   13|             your hands the material proof of his innocence! That is
28    2,   14|             contained, the material proof of the guiltlessness of
29    2,   15|             not the long-sought-for proof have been furnished to the
30    2,   15|             proofs. When a material proof was unexpectedly produced
31    2,   15|      regrettable circumstances, the proof disappeared, he would find
32    2,   16|          production of the material proof his innocence. “Yes, mother,”
33    2,   17|           Manoel, “and the material proof of your innocence is still
34    2,   18|      pronounced on Joam Dacosta. No proof had been produced; justice
35    2,   18|            had not brought back the proof that Ortega was the author
36    2,   19|        Jarriquez. Yes, the material proof sought after for so long
37    2,   19|          possessed this indubitable proof, arranged with the chief