My business is simple
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O meo negocio é simples, e julgo que o posso declarar em presença aqui do senhor e da senhora,
'My business is simple, and I judge I may declare it here in the presence of the gentleman and the lady,'
Miguel is open-handed — he has nothing to hide, and says his business may be spoken before the whole family. His transparency is the moral opposite of Leôncio's evasions, and it sets up the cruelty of the refusal to come.
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