He could no longer refuse
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não poude mais escusar-se.
could no longer excuse himself.
The wall of excuses gives way — for now. He has run out of dodges under Malvina's eye and must at least act the part of writing. The reversal is real, and its undoing (the letter) will be all the crueler for how close relief had come.
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