So timely an interruption
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que tão a proposito mandava-lhe uma visita para interromper aquella importuna e detestavel questão
which so opportunely sent him a visitor to break off that tiresome and detestable quarrel,
The narrator reports Leôncio's relief with faint mockery — 'tão a proposito,' so conveniently. To him the whole confrontation was merely 'importuna e detestavel,' a tiresome nuisance, not a marriage in crisis. His annoyance measures exactly how little he feels.
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