The circumstances conspiring against him
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Leoncio, subjugado pelo olhar imperioso da mulher, e pela força das circumstancias, que contra elle conspiravão,
Leôncio, subdued by the imperious gaze of his wife, and by the force of the circumstances conspiring against him,
Everything pins him at once — his wife's commanding look, the logic of the scene, the money on the table. For a moment the villain is genuinely cornered, forced toward the one honest act, and the reader feels the deal about to close.
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