A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.209 · 6.209

Otherwise a slave forever

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mas se minha sorte depender sómente daquelle homem, serei para sempre escrava.

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but if my fate should depend only on that man, I shall be a slave forever.'

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Her clear-eyed dread, and the chapter's cruel truth in advance: if it comes down to Leôncio, she is lost. She names her fate precisely — 'escrava para sempre' — the very sentence the letter is about to hand her.

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