'The dark corner'
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Foi emfim deparar com ella no escuro recanto de uma alcova,
He came upon her at last in the dark corner of a bedchamber,
'Deparar com' — to come upon, chance upon — has an air of the hunter flushing his quarry. He finds her 'no escuro recanto de uma alcova,' the dark corner of a bedchamber, run to earth in the last shadow. The darkness that should have hidden her instead frames her helplessness. The predator has cornered the hare.
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