A Escrava Isaura 8.169 · 8.169

The tableau of the found victim: 'estendida por terra quasi exanime, banhada em pranto' — stretched on the floor almost lifeless, bathed in weeping. 'Exanime,' literally without breath or soul, shows how far grief has emptied her; she is prostrate, drowned in her own tears. The image is of complete defencelessness, the hare gone still under the shadow.

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