A Escrava Isaura 8.143 · 8.143

Rosa opens her poison in the slave dialect of the senzala: 'Sinhá' (from senhora, the mistress), 'está-se fiando' — is trusting. The whole slander turns on one word, 'sonsa,' the sly one who feigns meekness: it recasts Isaura's real gentleness as a cunning performance. Rosa knows exactly which suspicion will bite a jealous heart.

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