...begging forgiveness
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implorasse o perdão delles, e se propuzesse a entrar nas sendas do dever e da honestidade.
would implore forgiveness for them, and resolve to enter the paths of duty and honesty.
Her hope completes its arc: he would beg 'perdão,' forgiveness, and 'entrar nas sendas do dever,' enter the paths of duty — the language of a soul restored to the straight road. 'Sendas,' paths, trails, casts virtue as a way one can choose to walk. It is exactly the reformist, redemptive vision the novel itself holds dear; Malvina wants for her husband what the book wants for its world. Neither will get it from Leôncio.
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