A Escrava Isaura 7.148 · 7.148

Isaura gives up defending herself and grants Rosa the field — 'say what you will.' It is not surrender but a change of ground: she will not argue about airs and privileges, and turns instead to the one truth that levels them both, in the sentence to come.

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