Voltava-lhe as costas
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Via -me já ordenado, diante dela, que choraria de arrependimento e me pediria perdão, mas eu, frio e sereno, não teria mais que desprezo, muito desprezo; voltava -lhe as costas. Chamava -lhe perversa.
I saw myself already ordered, before her, that she would cry of repentance and would ask me forgiveness, but I, cold and serene, would have nothing but contempt, much contempt; I turned my back on her. I called her perverse.
The narrator imagines a scene of rejection.
The narrator imagines a scene where he rejects a woman who repents, showing his coldness and contempt.
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