My father is happily still alive
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— Alto lá, senhor Miguel! meo pae felizmente é vivo ainda,
'Hold there, Senhor Miguel! my father, happily, is still alive,
A savage little irony sits in 'felizmente' — happily, my father lives. Within minutes the black-bordered letter will arrive to say he does not. Leôncio leans his whole refusal on a fact that has already ceased to be true.
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