'In search of Isaura'
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e pôz-se a percorrer toda a casa em procura de Isaura.
and set about ranging through the whole house in search of Isaura.
The hunt is literal: he 'pôz-se a percorrer toda a casa em procura de Isaura' — set about combing the whole house in search of her. The hawk-and-hare image of a few paragraphs back is now enacted; the predator quarters the ground. Isaura's hiding places, the 'sombrios recantos' where she had waited out her dread, become the very places he searches.
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