It is with you I must deal
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— Muito bem!... é com Vª. S.ª, que tenho de tratar na falta do senhor seo pae.
'Very well!... it is with Your Lordship that I must deal, in the absence of your father.'
Miguel names the difficulty at once: the old commander, who set the price, is away, so the son must stand in for him. It is exactly the gap Leôncio will exploit — to claim he has no authority to close the deal his father opened.
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