A Escrava Isaura 7.143 · 7.143

Rosa waves the hope away at once. Her 'nessa não creio eu' — that, I don't believe — cannot imagine a woman content without the attentions Rosa herself lives for, and the next line reveals the whole narrowness of her world.

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