A Escrava Isaura 7.2 · 7.2

An inventory of poverty: three-legged stools, benches, wheels, winders, one great loom. Guimarães lists the plain machinery the way he elsewhere lists the great house's silk and damask, and the contrast does the work — this is where the wealth of the earlier chapters is actually made.

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