'Take them to the coffee'
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Logo que acabem de comer,— continuou elle dirigindo-se ao feitor,— leve-as para a colheita do café.
As soon as they finish eating, he went on, turning to the overseer, take them off to the coffee harvest.
Aloud, Leôncio issues an order that serves his private scheme: send the women to the 'colheita do café,' the coffee harvest, the moment they have eaten. It clears the workroom and empties it of witnesses — and it fulfils the threat tia Joaquina foretold at the chapter's opening, that under the new master the loom would give way to the killing labour of the fields. His lust and his greed point the same way.
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