A Escrava Isaura 5.136 · 5.136

Malvina's answer is all resolve and no hesitation — 'vás ver neste mesmo instante', you'll see right now. The weeping wife of a page ago has become a woman about to act. Grief has burned down to a hard purpose; she will not wait, will not counsel, will confront. The chapter's final movement is set in motion by her decision.

Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear 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:

• Plato's Phaedrus — complete, ancient Greek
• Heraclitus, the Fragments — complete
• Dante's Inferno — Italian, canto I
• Dom Casmurro — Brazilian Portuguese