A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.50 · 6.50

To gain their perverse ends

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que não hesitam em perturbar o socego da casa dos outros para conseguir seos fins perversos...

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'who do not scruple to disturb the peace of other people's homes to gain their perverse ends...'

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He paints Henrique as a schemer with 'fins perversos,' perverse designs — a rich accusation from the actual predator of the house. The scene's irony is total: each man sees clearly the other's baseness and is blind to his own.

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