A Escrava Isaura 7.153 · 7.153

The scene's clock strikes. A 'sineta' is a small hand-bell, and its 'badaladas,' its strokes, are the regulating pulse of plantation life — bells for waking, for work, for meals. The sound interrupts the quarrel and turns the chapter toward its next movement.

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