A Escrava Isaura 7.185 · 7.185

Her dread finds words. 'Ahi temos nova importunação' — here we have a fresh nuisance — the weary formula of someone for whom interruption is constant and unwelcome. 'Importunação,' importuning, is precisely the right word: the demand of one who has no right to demand but does so anyway, again and again.

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