A Escrava Isaura 6.165 · 6.165

An aside that damns the whole line: even to his son, the old commander was a fool and a miser — not for the extortion, but for setting a price at all. Leôncio's contempt is not moral but greedy: his father erred by naming a number Miguel could reach.

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