A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.220 · 6.220

She read in a broken voice

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e tomando a carta que Leoncio atirára sobre a mesa, começou a ler com voz entre-cortada:

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and taking the letter Leôncio had thrown on the table, began to read in a broken voice:

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The letter passes to her; the news will be delivered in her halting voice. Guimarães stages the announcement as a reading-aloud, so the whole room — and the reader — receives the blow together, word by broken word.

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