A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 7.240 · 7.240

'Where are the girls?'

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— Onde estão as raparigas que aqui costumão trabalhar?... perguntou Leoncio ao feitor, ao entrar no salão.

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— Where are the girls who usually work here?... Leôncio asked the overseer, on entering the hall.

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Leôncio's first words are all business — 'onde estão as raparigas?,' where are the girls? — the master surveying his idle workroom. He does not yet see Isaura, and the question, ordinary as it is, keeps him in the register of ownership: the women are labour to be accounted for, present or absent at his word.

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