No use for thread or cloth
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— Este não quer saber de fiados nem de tecidos, não;
'This one wants nothing to do with spinning or weaving, no;
'This one' — she will not even use his name. Leôncio has no interest in the old cloth economy of the house; the workroom itself is doomed. The double 'no' is the emphatic negation of speech, hammering the point home.
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