'Your fate in my hands'
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— fica sabendo, que agora a tua sorte está inteiramente entre as minhas mãos.
know that now your fate lies entirely in my hands.
Leôncio opens with the naked threat of ownership: 'a tua sorte está inteiramente entre as minhas mãos' — your fate is entirely in my hands. It is the literal truth of slavery stated as intimidation, and it echoes the earlier image of Isaura 'delivered into the hands' of her persecutor. He begins where the law places him: with absolute power over another's life.
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