She starts to her feet
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— Senhor!— respondeo a escrava erguendo-se sobresaltada;
— Sir! answered the slave, rising with a start;
Her body answers before her mind can. 'Erguendo-se sobresaltada,' rising with a start, she is on her feet in alarm, and the single word 'Senhor!' — Sir! — carries the whole reflex of a slave before a master: deference and fear fused into one syllable. The narrator names her here simply as 'a escrava,' the slave, so that the naked power-relation stands before us undisguised.
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