'Enough of this talk'
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e deixemos dessas conversas que não tem graça nenhuma.
and let us leave off this talk that has no grace in it at all.
The dismissal is mild but final. 'Não tem graça nenhuma' — it has no grace, no charm, no point — is the plain verdict of good sense on cruelty: it is not even interesting. Isaura closes the exchange not with a wound of her own but with a shrug, and bends back to the thread.
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