The slaves she could resist
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Facil lhe fôra repellir as importunações e insolencias dos escravos e creados;
It would have been easy for her to repel the importunings and insolences of the slaves and servants;
The narrator draws the crucial distinction. The pestering of fellow slaves like André, however wearing, she could 'repellir,' push away, because they have no real power over her — a threat, a raised voice, and they retreat. Their insolence is survivable. The sentence sets up, by contrast, the one pursuer she cannot refuse.
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