'His execrable ends'
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que quizesse pôr em pratica para conseguir seos execrandos fins.
that he might wish to carry out to achieve his execrable ends.
The sentence ends on the goal, unsoftened: 'seos execrandos fins,' his execrable ends — the accursed aim of forcing Isaura. 'Execrando,' like 'nefando' earlier, is a word of ritual condemnation, something to be cursed. The narrator will not let the elegant villain's manners obscure what he is after; the plain moral naming is the book's steady counterweight to Leôncio's charm.
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