A Escrava Isaura 5.21 · 5.21

The chapter's register flips with one interjection. After two chapters of dread, Isaura's inner cry at seeing Belchior is exasperated comedy, not fear — 'Valha-me Deus!', the everyday sigh of a woman who has had quite enough of being pestered. The narration lets us inside her head just long enough to hear the eye-roll.

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