He checked himself in time
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Mas conteve-se a tempo, e acalmando-se entendeo que melhor era não se dar por achado,
But he checked himself in time, and, growing calm, understood that it would be better not to let it show,
But he checked himself in time, and, growing calm, understood that it would be better not to let it show,
The predator's cold intelligence takes over — 'conteve-se a tempo'. He masters the rage not from decency but from strategy: 'não se dar por achado', to act as if nothing were known, is the tactician's move. Guimarães shows the more dangerous Leôncio: not the brute who throws plates, but the schemer who swallows his fury and calculates.
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