What became of the family
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para informarmos o leitor sobre o que occorrera no seio daquella pequena familia, e em que pé ficárão os negocios da casa,
to inform the reader of what had happened within that little family, and in what state the affairs of the house then stood,
The narrator states his purpose plainly: to catch the reader up on 'aquella pequena familia,' that little family — Leôncio, Malvina, and the household — since the commendador's death. The idiom 'em que pé ficárão os negocios,' on what footing the affairs stood, treats the domestic drama and the estate's finances as one tangled matter, which in a slaveholding household they were.
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