A Escrava Isaura 8.170 · 8.170

The final detail gives the grief a violence: 'arrancando do peito soluços convulsivos' — tearing convulsive sobs from her breast. 'Arrancar,' to wrench out by the roots, makes the weeping something ripped from her body against her will. This is the state in which Leôncio finds her, and — the narrator will now tell us — the state in which he begins to press his suit: on a woman already broken by despair.

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