A Escrava Isaura 7.224 · 7.224

Rebuffed and a little cowed, André retreats into wounded reasonableness — as if her anger, not his hands, were the offence. 'Não ha motivo,' there's no cause: the trespasser tells the trespassed-upon that she overreacts. It is a small, familiar injustice, the aggressor reframing resistance as unkindness.

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