A Escrava Isaura 9.44 · 9.44

Now the sleight-of-hand is complete: having established love as the reason to keep her, he substitutes his own — 'outra sorte de amor muito mais ardente e exaltado,' another kind of love, far more ardent and exalted. He slides from the mother's chaste devotion to his own sexual passion as though they were degrees of one thing. The whole speech has been an engine for this equation, dressing lust in the robes of a mother's tenderness.

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