Skilled at every task
Read the full text in our reader
todavia era ella habil em todo o genero de serviço domestico:
she was nonetheless skilled in every kind of domestic service:
The colon opens onto a list, and the point of the list is equality: whatever the great house made of her, she can do exactly what the other women do. Her refinement is an addition to her competence, not a substitute for it.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open A Escrava Isaura 7.85 in the full reader
Always open passages in the 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:
A Escrava Isaura 7.85 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/escravaisaura/7.85/