A Escrava Isaura 7.215 · 7.215

Having used Rosa, he discards her — 'o que é ella ao pé de você?,' what is she beside you? The idiom 'ao pé de,' at the foot of, next to, sets the two women in a hierarchy of looks, and André ranks them as coolly as a buyer. His flattery of Isaura is built, again, on the belittling of another woman; the currency is always contempt.

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