More to gain time than to check
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mais para ganhar tempo a reflectir sobre o que deveria fazer naquellas conjuncturas,
more to gain time to reflect on what he should do in those circumstances,
The narrator names the trick outright: the slow counting is a screen for thinking. Leôncio needs a way out of a bargain he cannot honestly refuse, and the pause over the banknotes is really a pause to plot.
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