Blaming his brother-in-law
Read the full text in our reader
furioso contra o cunhado, a cuja impertinente leviandade attribuía as fataes occurrencias daquella manhã,
furious with his brother-in-law, to whose impertinent recklessness he laid the blame for the fatal events of that morning,
furious with his brother-in-law, to whose impertinent recklessness he laid the blame for the fatal events of that morning,
Leôncio blames everyone but himself — Henrique's 'impertinente leviandade', impertinent recklessness, is the culprit, never his own predatory conduct. It is the reflex of the guilty powerful: the exposure is the scandal, not the crime. The word 'leviandade' returns from the narrator's earlier diagnosis of Henrique, now weaponized as Leôncio's alibi.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open A Escrava Isaura 5.104 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
A Escrava Isaura 5.104 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/escravaisaura/5.104/