'Let these bonds break forever'
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Quebrem-se de uma vez para sempre esses laços urdidos pelo interesse! esqueça-se para sempre de mim, que eu nos braços de minha Isaura encontrarei sobeja ventura para poder lembrar-me della.
Let these bonds woven by interest break once and for all; let her forget me forever — for in my Isaura's arms I will find joy enough to remember her by.
Leôncio pronounces his marriage a fraud even as he uses its collapse to press his suit: the bonds were 'urdidos pelo interesse' — woven by self-interest, a loveless bargain. There is a bitter half-truth in it (the match was arranged for money), but he weaponizes it, turning his own cynicism into a reason Isaura should yield. The closing flourish is grotesque: he will find in her arms joy enough 'para poder lembrar-me della' — to be able to remember Malvina by. He measures one woman's worth by how completely she can help him forget another. It is seduction as accountancy.
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