A Escrava Isaura 7.114 · 7.114

The second curse turns bodily and disfiguring — leprosy, the disease that eats a person away and casts them out. 'Cousa ruim,' wicked thing, reduces the overseer to an object, the way he reduces them; the insult answers the injury in kind.

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