A Escrava Isaura 7.223 · 7.223

Her threat is telling in its target: she will report him not to any protector of hers — she has none — but to Leôncio, the master who himself preys on her. It is the grim arithmetic of the powerless: her only weapon against one predator is another, greater one, whose jealousy she can turn against a rival. She wards off André by invoking the very danger she most fears.

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