A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.147 · 6.147

And leave me, for charity's sake

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e lhe entrego livre a sua filha e... deixe-me por caridade.

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and I hand your daughter over to you free, and... leave me, for charity's sake.'

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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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