'But what for, such haste?'
Read the full text in our reader
— Mas para que, semelhante pressa?... não me dirás, Malvina?
But what for, such haste?... won't you tell me, Malvina?
Leôncio answers her indignation with feigned reasonableness, the smooth counter to her heat. 'Semelhante pressa' — such haste — reframes a long-overdue duty as a rash impulse, as though Malvina were the unreasonable one. The gentle interrogatives are a tactic: he will bury refusal under a show of concern.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open A Escrava Isaura 8.59 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
A Escrava Isaura 8.59 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/escravaisaura/8.59/