Prima Justina insinua namoro
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Talvez ficassem namorando, insinuou prima Justina. Não a matei por não ter à mão ferro nem corda, pistola nem punhal; mas os olhos que lhe deitei, se pudessem matar, teriam suprido tudo.
Perhaps they were flirting, suggested cousin Justina. I did not kill her for not having at hand iron nor rope, pistol nor dagger; but the eyes I cast her, if they could kill, would have supplied everything.
Prima Justina suggests that the two might have been flirting, and the narrator expresses his murderous rage.
The narrator says he did not kill his cousin Justina because he lacked weapons, but his murderous gaze would have been sufficient if looks could kill.
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