A Escrava Isaura 3.118 · 3.118

Her answer is a small masterpiece of level refusal: I give him exactly what I give you — which is nothing. In one clause she puts the two men on the same footing and shuts the door on both. There is no fear in it and no flattery; she declines to be drawn into ranking her persecutors, and lets the symmetry do the work.

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