'Carpets and damask'
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que só merece pisar em tapetes e deitar em colchões de damasco.
who deserves only to tread on carpets and lie on mattresses of damask.
The flattery finishes in luxury — carpets, damask mattresses — the same fine things Rosa listed as losses, now offered as André's vision of Isaura's due. 'Merece,' deserves: he grants her worth only by rank, imagining for her the appointments of a lady. Every compliment in his mouth turns on placing her above others, never on her simple freedom.
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