A Escrava Isaura 7.41 · 7.41

Joaquina answers Rosa's envy with pity: to be Isaura is not to be envied but feared for. 'God keep you from her skin' — the beauty and the master's eye that Rosa covets are, the old woman knows, a curse. She reads Isaura's fate more truly than anyone at the wheels.

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