A rash act
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— Não digo de todo que não, sr. cavalheiro; confesso que D. Diogo cometeu uma imprudência matando essa índia.
— I won't say altogether no, sir knight; I confess D. Diogo committed an imprudence in killing that Indian woman.
Aires Gomes concedes, cautiously: D. Diogo did commit an imprudence in killing the Indian woman.
The squire hedges — 'imprudence,' a word for tactics, not sin. He is worried about consequences, not about the woman. His master will correct him.
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