'In very good hands'
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Entreguemol-a ao senhor Miguel, que ficará em muito boas mãos, e debaixo de muito boa sombra.
Let us hand her over to senhor Miguel, where she will be in very good hands, and under very good shelter.
Malvina proposes the simple, honourable solution: give Isaura to her own father. 'Boas mãos' and 'boa sombra' — good hands, good shade — draw on the plantation image of shelter under a spreading tree, the shade that protects from the sun's cruelty. It is exactly the safe keeping Leôncio pretends to worry about, offered freely, and he will refuse it.
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