A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.106 · 6.106

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e por suas maneiras e conversação conhecia-se, que aquelle homem não viéra ao Brazil,

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and by his manners and speech one saw that this man had not come to Brazil,

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Bearing gives him away as gently raised. And the narrator sets Miguel apart from the stock Portuguese emigrant of the age — not one of the money-chasers, but a man shipwrecked into the New World by politics, not greed.

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