An easy conquest
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para quem fôra facil conquista, que não lhe custou nem rogos nem ameaças.
for whom she had been an easy conquest, one that cost him neither pleadings nor threats.
The line cuts two ways. On its surface it flatters Leôncio's power — Rosa yielded without his having to beg or threaten. But it also quietly damns him: that 'rogos' and 'ameaças,' pleadings and threats, are the named alternatives tells us exactly how he takes the women he wants. Isaura, we will see, forces him to both.
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