...and mend his ways
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retrahindo-se no santuario da consciencia, reconhecesse seos erros e desvarios,
withdrawing into the sanctuary of his conscience, would recognize his errors and follies,
The picture of the repentance she imagined: a man retreating 'no santuario da consciencia,' into the sanctuary of conscience, to face his 'erros e desvarios,' his wrongs and mad excesses. It is a Christian, sentimental hope — that solitude with one's conscience produces remorse. She does not yet grasp that Leôncio's seclusion held only scheming, and that his conscience is an empty room.
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