The business is with his father
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— O negocio não é com elle, é com seo pae, a quem agora escreve.
'The business is not with him, it is with his father, to whom he is writing now.'
Miguel reassures her with the very excuse Leôncio invented — the decision rests with the father, who is being written to. He trusts the fiction, not knowing it is a delaying tactic, and comforts his daughter with a hope built on sand.
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