'Wasting time in chatter'
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em que perdem o tempo sem proveito algum, em continuas palestras.
where they waste their time to no profit at all, in endless chatter.
He completes the indictment: 'perdem o tempo sem proveito algum, em continuas palestras,' they waste time to no profit in ceaseless chatter. The reader has just watched those 'palestras' — the women's talk of Juliana, of captivity, of the coming rigour — and knows it was not idle prattle but the senzala's one freedom, its memory and its truth-telling. What Leôncio dismisses as chatter is precisely what he most needs silenced.
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