A Escrava Isaura 7.187 · 7.187

The narrator names the intruder with a comic flourish — 'sem mais nem menos,' neither more nor less, none other than — as if unveiling him. André is the 'pajem,' the page or liveried valet, the young mulatto we glimpsed entering with the overseer. He is the third of Isaura's would-be suitors, and the least dangerous, but no less unwelcome.

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