A Escrava Isaura 8.95 · 8.95

The oaths' true parentage is named: not settled resolve but 'a febre do ciume e da indignação,' the fever of jealousy and indignation. 'Febre' makes passion a sickness of the blood, hot and transient. It is an honest diagnosis of Malvina, whose wound is real but whose remedy — flight and forgetting — is spoken in delirium, not in health.

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