Knowing his overseer's holy aim
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o qual, sabendo do santo e nobre fim a que se propunha seo feitor,
who, knowing the holy and noble aim to which his overseer had set himself,
The good master reads Miguel's purpose rightly — 'holy and noble.' Where the commander saw only a chance to torment, this man sees a father's sacred errand, and the contrast is the whole moral architecture of the chapter.
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