A Escrava Isaura 7.201 · 7.201

André even condemns his own master to ingratiate himself — 'um coração de fera,' the heart of a beast — for sending a girl like Isaura to the workroom. It costs him nothing and buys him a moment's alliance with her against Leôncio. The judgment happens to be true, which is the joke: the buffoon stumbles onto the plain fact everyone knows.

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