A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.201 · 6.201

Kissing his hands

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Meo coração adivinhava, continuou beijando com terna efusão as mãos de Miguel;

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My heart foresaw it, she went on, kissing Miguel's hands with tender effusion;

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She kisses the hands that saved coin by coin to buy her — the working hands of a father. 'My heart foresaw it': her deliverance would come, she felt, only from love. The tenderness is at its height exactly as the blow prepares to land.

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