A Escrava Isaura 7.229 · 7.229

The fear names the stakes plainly: 'era capaz de me enforcar,' he'd be capable of hanging me. It is not idle — a master's jealousy over a woman he considered his to pursue could indeed cost a slave his life. The comic dandy suddenly stands revealed as what he is: a man whose neck is not his own, courting a woman whose body is not hers.

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