A Escrava Isaura 8.64 · 8.64

Here Leôncio weaponizes the household's own kindness. Because Isaura was raised 'como uma filha da familia' — as a daughter of the family — he pretends her slavery is a courtesy, softened out of existence. But the sentence names the truth it tries to hide: 'do que como uma escrava,' than as a slave. The word he cannot avoid is the word that answers him.

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