A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 7.76 · 7.76

A place beside Rosa

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Este mandou collocar a roda em um espaço desoccupado, que infelizmente para Isaura ficava ao pé de Rosa.

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He had the wheel set in an empty space which, unluckily for Isaura, was right beside Rosa.

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The narrator's 'unluckily' is a small thumb on the scale, and the placement is the plot in miniature: of all the wheels in the hall, Isaura's is set beside her one enemy. Chance, or the story's cruelty, seats the dove next to the woman who wishes her ruin — and the long afternoon of torment is arranged.

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