A Escrava Isaura 6.116 · 6.116

Excellence is the last stroke of the portrait: whatever he set his hand to, he did superbly. The completed picture — cultivated, upright, hardworking, expert — is designed so that the master's contempt for such a man reads as the moral scandal it is.

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