How to undo my father's folly
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— Não sei que volta hei-de dar para desmanchar esta inqualificavel loucura de meo pae!
'I don't know what turn I must take to undo this unspeakable folly of my father's!'
He is already scheming to break the bargain — casting about for a 'turn,' a legal or practical trick to void his father's promise. To him, keeping faith is the 'folly.' The letter will hand him his solution before he can even invent one.
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