You insult and betray me
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— quero dizer-lhe, que o senhor me insulta e me atraiçoa em sua casa, da maneira a mais indigna e desleal...
'I wish to tell you that you insult me and betray me in your house, in the most unworthy and disloyal way...'
Now the charge, plainly: insulta e atraiçoa — insult and betrayal, the two words a wife dreads most, and 'em sua casa,' under his own roof. The formal 'o senhor' does the work of contempt: she will not even give him a 'you.'
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