A Escrava Isaura 9.34 · 9.34

The condescension curdles into a veiled threat dressed as prophecy: 'te arrependerás de ter rejeitado o meu amor,' one day you will repent — 'e talvez já tarde,' and perhaps too late. Beneath the wounded-lover pose is the punishment-ladder of Chapter VIII; 'too late' points at the tronco, the pelourinho, the grave. He offers his love and his cruelty as the two faces of the same coin, and lets her feel the second in the shadow of the first.

Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.

You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.

The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.

Also on our shelves:

• Plato's Phaedrus — complete, ancient Greek
• Heraclitus, the Fragments — complete
• Dante's Inferno — Italian, canto I
• Dom Casmurro — Brazilian Portuguese