A Escrava Isaura 7.221 · 7.221

The gentleness ends the instant he touches her. 'Alto lá!' — halt! stop right there! — is a soldier's command, sharp and physical, and 'repellindo-o,' pushing him off, is action, not words. Where taunts drew only patience, the trespass on her body draws an immediate, bodily 'no.' Her forbearance was never weakness.

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