You want a bodyguard
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— Ah! comprehendo; queres que eu seja teo guarda-costa, para poderes descompor a teo geito aquelle birbante.
— Ah! I understand; you want me to be your bodyguard, so you can lay into that rascal in your own way.
— Ah! I understand; you want me to be your bodyguard, so you can lay into that rascal in your own way.
Henrique, reassured that he need only stand by, warms to the plan — 'teo guarda-costa', your bodyguard. He grasps her design: he is the protection, she the prosecutor. 'Descompor a teo geito aquelle birbante' — to give that rascal a piece of your mind. His relief is almost comic: brave enough to guard, not to face. And Malvina, notably, is to do the confronting.
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