A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.169 · 6.169

Only my father may dispose of her

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só meo pae póde dispor della.

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soonlymeoME-umypaepaifatherpódePO-demaydispordish-PORdisposedellaDE-laof her.

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only my father may dispose of her.

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'Dispor della' — dispose of her: the chilling verb of property law applied to a living woman. Leôncio wraps his refusal in legal propriety, insisting only his father has the right to do what he himself has no wish to do.

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