How the profits were split
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Uma parte dos lucros pertencia ao fidalgo, como chefe; a outra era distribuida igualmente pelos quarenta aventureiros, que a recebião em dinheiro ou em objectos de consumo.
One share of the profits belonged to the fidalgo as chief; the other was divided equally among the forty adventurers, who received it in money or in goods for their use.
One share of the profits went to the fidalgo as chief; the other was divided equally among the forty adventurers, who took it in money or in goods for their use.
The arithmetic of the band is laid bare — half to the lord, half split forty ways — and its fairness is the quiet point. Alencar keeps insisting on the justice of Dom Antônio's rule, building a portrait of legitimate authority so solid that its later collision with a real crime will feel like the ground giving way.
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