Malvina confronts Leôncio
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— Senhor Leoncio,— disse Malvina com voz alterada approximando-se do sofá, em que se achava o marido,
'Mr. Leôncio,' said Malvina in a shaken voice, drawing near to the sofa on which her husband sat,
The chapter opens on the reckoning Chapter V promised. The whole rupture is in one word: 'Senhor.' A wife who calls her husband 'Mr. Leôncio' has already left him in her heart; the cold formal address is the sound of a marriage cracking.
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