A Escrava Isaura 6.66 · 6.66

The old country greeting at the threshold — 'Ó de casa! dá licença?' — a stranger's voice cutting cleanly across the family's poisoned quarrel. Guimarães uses the interruption for relief and for irony: rescue seems to arrive, though the chapter will make it a fresh grief.

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