Always at your orders
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— Estou sempre ás tuas ordens, querida Malvina,— respondeo levantando-se lesto e risonho,
'I am always at your orders, dear Malvina,' he answered, rising brisk and smiling,
Leôncio meets her ice with oily ease — 'always at your orders,' up on his feet, brisk and grinning. The lightness is a strategy: he refuses to grant the scene the seriousness she brings to it.
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