His pride revolts
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A tão severa e esmagadora exprobração, Leoncio sentio revoltar-se o seo orgulho.
At so severe and crushing a reproach, Leôncio felt his pride rise in revolt.
The narrator marks the exact hinge of the scene. Isaura's moral reproach lands as an injury — 'sentio revoltar-se o seo orgulho' — and it is his pride, not his conscience, that stirs. A better man might have felt the rebuke as truth; Leôncio feels it only as insolence from someone with no standing to judge him. From here the seduction curdles into cruelty, because what he cannot bear is not being refused but being corrected by a slave. 'Orgulho' is the pivot on which the whole chapter swings from honeyed offer to the whip.
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