A Escrava Isaura 7.131 · 7.131

The needle goes deepest here. 'Enxotar' is what you do to a stray animal — shoo it off, drive it away — and Rosa chooses the word deliberately, implying Isaura was expelled in disgrace rather than simply left behind. It is a lie with a hook in it, meant to make Isaura defend herself.

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