The young master refused
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Mas nhonhô não esteve por isso, ficou muito zangado, e tocou o feitor para fora.
'But the young master wouldn't have it; he grew very angry, and drove the overseer out.'
The refusal is the hinge of the whole tragedy: the master would not let Juliana be bought free, because he wanted her himself, and he threw out the man who tried. It is exactly the scene of Cap. VI replayed a generation earlier — Leôncio refusing to sell Isaura to Miguel — proving Joaquina's 'same course.' The pattern is a law of the house.
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