Their ruling passion is vengeance
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— Conheces tão bem como eu, Aires, o caráter desses selvagens; sabes que a sua paixão dominante é a vingança, e que por ela sacrificam tudo, a vida e a liberdade.
— You know as well as I do, Aires, the character of those savages; you know that their ruling passion is revenge, and that for it they sacrifice everything — life and liberty.
D. Antônio names the true danger: he knows the savages' character as well as the squire does — their ruling passion is revenge, for which they sacrifice everything, life and liberty.
D. Antônio names the engine of the coming catastrophe: Indian vengeance. It is dramatic irony — the reader already saw D. Diogo's crime, and knows the debt will be collected.
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