A Escrava Isaura 7.189 · 7.189

André opens with a dandy's gallantry. 'Como vae essa flor?' — how goes this flower? — is the practised line of a would-be charmer, casting Isaura as a bloom to be admired and plucked. Where Leôncio menaces and Henrique wheedles, André flirts; the register is lighter, but the aim is the same appropriation.

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