'Sweep him from memory'
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e varrer para sempre da lembrança a imagem de seo desleal e devasso marido.
and to sweep forever from her memory the image of her disloyal and dissolute husband.
The second vow is harder than the first: not just to leave the house but to 'varrer para sempre da lembrança a imagem' — sweep his very image from memory forever. 'Desleal e devasso' — disloyal and dissolute — is her final verdict on the man. Yet the wish to forget is itself proof of how present he still is; you do not sweep out what was never there.
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