'A powerful hindrance'
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ella não deixava de ser um poderoso estorvo ao menos contra os actos de violencia,
she was nonetheless a powerful hindrance, at least against acts of violence,
The narrator carefully bounds the protection: Malvina was 'um poderoso estorvo,' a powerful hindrance, but only 'ao menos contra os actos de violencia' — at least against outright violence. She could not stop his desire or his slander, but her presence made open force too dangerous. The precision is grim: it tells us exactly what is now unleashed by her going — the violence her eyes had forbidden.
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