A Escrava Isaura 6.152 · 6.152

Miguel closes on faith — the poor man's last capital. His trust in God frames his effort as righteous and his cause as just, and sets up the chapter's cruelest irony: he keeps his side of the bargain, and Heaven seems to answer, only for the master's death to void it all.

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