Say a savagery, a madness
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— Dize uma barbaria, uma loucura!... Não penses que com ser meu filho, o desculpo!
— Say a barbarity, a madness!... Don't think that because he is my son I excuse him!
D. Antônio rejects the mild word. Call it a barbarity, a madness — and don't imagine that being my son excuses him.
D. Antônio's code: honor overrides blood. He will not let paternal love soften the name of the deed. This is the moral spine of the character.
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