A Escrava Isaura 8.87 · 8.87

The dam gives way: 'não pôde conter-se, e rompeo com seo marido' — she could no longer hold back, and broke openly with her husband. 'Romper' is the decisive verb, a rupture, not a quarrel; the marriage's fiction of concord ends here. Her patience, stretched past bearing by his flippancy, snaps into open confrontation.

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