A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 7.10 · 7.10

Lively black eyes

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Os olhos negros não erão muito grandes, mas tinhão uma viveza e travessura encantadora.

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Her black eyes were not very large, but held a charming liveliness and mischief.

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Rosa's eyes get the same two nouns her whole character does — liveliness and mischief. Guimarães is efficient: this is not idle description but the tune of a personality, and the mischief will turn to malice once we learn what Leôncio did to her.

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