A Escrava Isaura 7.144 · 7.144

Rosa measures Isaura by herself, and the projection is revealing. To Rosa, contentment means 'moços para namorar,' young men to court — the currency of her own survival and her own wound. She accuses Isaura of the very hunger that Leôncio's abandonment left in her; the taunt is a confession.

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