A Escrava Isaura 9.26 · 9.26

Leôncio shifts registers, from tyrant to lover: 'a mais terna inflexão de voz,' the most tender tone. The narrator flags the performance — the tenderness is a chosen instrument, like the mildness of Chapter VIII. He protests 'com todas as forças de minha alma,' with all his soul's strength, a lover's hyperbole deployed against a captive who cannot leave the room.

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