Only from the one who gave me life
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— eu não devia receber a liberdade senão das mãos daquelle, que me deo a vida!...
I should receive freedom only from the hands of the one who gave me life!...
The moral heart of the scene: freedom, to be worth having, must come from love, not from lust dressed as generosity. She would take liberty only from her father's hands — a purity of feeling that makes the coming denial the more monstrous.
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