A Escrava Isaura 7.246 · 7.246

He dresses the sudden order as old estate business — something he had 'long meant' to arrange and merely forgot. The pretext is plausible and cheap, a manager tidying his operation. Only the reader, and Leôncio, know that the timing is not administrative at all: the room is being cleared today because Isaura is in it, alone.

Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.

You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.

The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.

Also on our shelves:

• Plato's Phaedrus — complete, ancient Greek
• Heraclitus, the Fragments — complete
• Dante's Inferno — Italian, canto I
• Dom Casmurro — Brazilian Portuguese