The master enters
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De feito, poucos instantes depois Leoncio, acompanhado pelo feitor, entrava no salão das fiandeiras.
In fact, a few moments later Leôncio, accompanied by the overseer, was entering the spinners' hall.
The dread of the last line is answered at once: 'poucos instantes depois,' a few moments later, the master himself is at the door. Leôncio comes 'acompanhado pelo feitor,' flanked by the overseer — power arriving with its enforcer. The whole chapter has been a rising scale of pursuers, and it now reaches the top.
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