A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.140 · 6.140

He did not hesitate to grovel

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não hesitou em ir humilhar-se diante delle, importunal-o com suas supplicas,

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did not hesitate to go and humble himself before him, to importune him with his entreaties,

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The proud man kneels. He goes to grovel before the very tormentor he loathes, pestering him with pleas — the abasement measured out in verbs of self-lowering. A father's dignity spent, deliberately, for his daughter's sake.

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