A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 7.110 · 7.110

Wounded by his scorn

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A gentil mulatinha sentio-se cruelmente ferida em seo coração com esse desdem,

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The pretty little mulatta felt herself cruelly wounded in her heart by that scorn,

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For a moment the narrator's sympathy rests on Rosa. 'Ferida em seo coração' — wounded in her heart — grants that her jealousy grows from a real hurt, a genuine feeling betrayed. Guimarães will not make her a simple villain; her cruelty has a wound at the bottom of it.

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