A Escrava Isaura 6.33 · 6.33

A lie wrapped in a warm claim: he 'wishes' to free her, of course. The reader who knows the story hears the falseness — his whole design is to keep Isaura enslaved and near — while Malvina, still half-hoping, cannot yet.

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