A Escrava Isaura 7.8 · 7.8

The catalogue proper starts at the body and the face. The diminutives — rapariguinha, rostinho — are affectionate, and they carry the narrator's amused, slightly patronising fondness for Rosa, so different from the reverence he brings to Isaura.

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