A Escrava Isaura 7.198 · 7.198

The flatterer shifts to feeling: it 'dóe-me... dentro do coração,' hurts him in his very heart, to see her where she is. The claim of tender suffering on her behalf is the oldest tool of seduction — to make his desire look like sympathy — and Isaura, who has heard it from grander men, is not deceived.

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