And leave me, for charity's sake
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e lhe entrego livre a sua filha e... deixe-me por caridade.
and I hand your daughter over to you free, and... leave me, for charity's sake.'
The offer curdles into a brush-off in the same breath: pay the impossible sum, and — 'for charity's sake' — stop bothering me. The master begs 'charity' from the man he is robbing, a small obscene inversion of who owes whom.
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