A Escrava Isaura 7.126 · 7.126

The first shot, fired under a flag of false sympathy. 'Tenho pena de você' — I pity you — is exactly the sentence designed to wound the proud, and the narrator's dry aside, 'to open operations,' keeps the battle metaphor and tells us the pity is a feint.

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