A Escrava Isaura 7.197 · 7.197

André recoils from her reproach with a pious flourish — 'Deos me livre,' God keep me from it. The protest sets up the flattery to come, and it is characteristic of him: all soft words and wounded innocence, the manner of a man who means to press his suit while insisting he means no harm.

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