A Escrava Isaura 8.109 · 8.109

The joy is not faint but flooding: it 'transbordava o coração,' brimmed over his heart. The image measures the gap between surface and depth — an outward boredom over an inward tide. That so much feeling could be so completely hidden is itself a portrait of the man's cold command over his own face.

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