A Escrava Isaura 7.222 · 7.222

She names his overreach in two exact words: 'adiantado,' too forward, presuming beyond his place, and 'atrevido,' insolent, daring. It is the same charge she might level at Leôncio, and in leveling it at a fellow slave she asserts a plain dignity: her body is not open ground for any man's boldness, master or servant.

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