But he refuses
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Mas Leoncio não podia se conformar com semelhante idéa.
But Leôncio could not reconcile himself to such an idea.
The single sentence that dooms Isaura. 'Não podia se conformar,' he could not resign himself, to the one decent course. Everything — law, promise, his mother's wish, his wife's demand, the father's money — pressed toward freedom, and against all of it stood only his desire. That the desire wins is the whole tragedy: in this world, a master's want outweighs every right the powerless can muster.
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