She well deserves it
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ella bem merece esse sacrificio.
she well deserves that sacrifice.'
Even the compliment is a blade. Praising Isaura as 'worth the sacrifice' lets Leôncio seem gracious while he privately values her far above any ransom — as we will hear him admit, he would not give her up 'for a hundred contos.'
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