A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 7.124 · 7.124

Seated next to Rosa

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Como já dissemos, coube em sorte a Isaura sentar-se perto de Rosa.

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ComoKO-muAszhaalreadydissemosdi-SE-mushwe have said,coubeKOH-beit fellemãybysorteSOR-telotaatoIsaurai-ZAU-raIsaurasentar-sesen-TAR-sito sitpertoPER-tuneardedeofRosaHO-zaRosa.

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As we have already said, it fell to Isaura's lot to sit near Rosa.

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The narrator picks up the thread he set down for his digression on the overseer. 'Coube em sorte' — it fell to her lot — frames the seating as blind chance, but chance in a novel is destiny: of all places, the one open wheel is beside her one enemy. The stage is set for the duel of words to come.

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