A Escrava Isaura 8.14 · 8.14

Leôncio withdraws into a show of grief, sealing himself away 'a ninguem falou,' speaking to no one. The seclusion reads as a son's mourning — and the narrator is about to strip that reading away. The whole passage turns on the gap between what the withdrawal seems and what it hides.

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