It falls to my father
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é a meo pae, que compete fazer o que de mim exiges.
'it is for my father to do what you demand of me.'
He finishes the dodge: the deed is his father's to sign, not his. It is technically true and wholly dishonest — the law of slavery hands him a perfect alibi for the cruelty he intends all along.
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