Once coarsely dismissed
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que havia sido outrora grosseiramente despedido pelo pae de Leoncio.
who had once been coarsely dismissed by Leôncio's father.
Old injury is folded into the reunion: Miguel was once thrown off this same plantation by the old master, Leôncio's father, when his love for Isaura's mother came to light. He returns to the house of the family that wronged him, hat in hand, for the child's sake — the measure of a father's love against a family's cruelty.
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