He welcomed his father's death
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chegou até a estimar aquelle acontecimento, que tanto a proposito vinha livral-o dos apuros, em que se achava enleado em face de Malvina e de Miguel.
he came even to welcome that event, which so opportunely came to free him from the straits in which he found himself entangled before Malvina and Miguel.
The revelation is complete and cold: he came 'a estimar aquelle acontecimento,' to welcome that event — his father's death — because it 'so opportunely' loosened the trap he was caught in. The 'apuros' were real: his mother's promise, his father's, Miguel's ten contos, Malvina's demand, all converging to force Isaura's freedom. The old man's death cut one thread of that knot. Guimarães lets us see a son measuring a death purely by its convenience.
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