A Escrava Isaura 6.92 · 6.92

'The one they SAY is the father' — Leôncio slides a doubt into the very fact of Miguel's paternity, and files Isaura away as 'the said slave,' the clerk's phrase. In two strokes he cheapens both the man's fatherhood and his child.

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