A Escrava Isaura 7.16 · 7.16

The portrait ends on a cold turn: after all that fond beauty, 'what low sort this child was.' The name arrives last, and it is pretty — Rosa, a rose — set against the narrator's contempt for her 'ralé.' Guimarães seals the rival with a judgement even before she has spoken.

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