Your master wills it
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Bem vejo, que te não ha-de agradar muito a mudança; mas que volta se lhe ha-de dar?... teo senhor assim o quer.
'I can see the change won't please you much; but what's to be done about it?... your master wills it so.'
Even the overseer's flicker of feeling — 'I can see it won't please you' — dead-ends in the one unanswerable fact: 'your master wills it.' There is no remedy because there is no appeal above the owner's want. Francisco is not cruel here so much as final; he is the voice that closes every door, and he closes this one gently.
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