A Escrava Isaura 7.136 · 7.136

Rosa claims secret knowledge. 'Cuida que me embaça' — you think you blind me, throw dust in my eyes — and the boast 'eu sei de tudo,' I know everything, is meant to unsettle. What she 'knows' is her own jealous theory, but she wields it as if it were the buried truth of the great house.

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