A Escrava Isaura 9.27 · 9.27

The lure is total: he would make her 'a mais feliz das creaturas,' the happiest of all creatures. It is the seducer's grand promise, and it rests on a lie the whole book exposes — that a woman's happiness could be found in the arms of the man who owns and would ruin her. What he offers as heaven is the very 'perdição' he threatened a breath ago; only the tone has changed.

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