A Escrava Isaura 8.51 · 8.51

She frames the manumission not as a favour but as a 'sagrado dever,' a sacred duty — an obligation owed to the dead, to the promise, to justice. Her incredulity, 'ainda hesitas?,' you still hesitate?, measures the gap between them: to her it is unthinkable to weigh such a duty; to him it is merely inconvenient.

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