Blind love, leaping every barrier
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O violento e cego amor, que Isaura lhe havia inspirado, o incitava a saltar por cima de todos os obstaculos,
The violent and blind love that Isaura had inspired in him urged him to leap over every obstacle,
The narrator anatomizes the force that governs Leôncio: a 'violento e cego amor,' a violent and blind love — not tenderness but appetite, a compulsion that overrides everything. 'Cego,' blind, is the key: it sees no obstacle it will not leap, no law it will not break. Guimarães calls it love, but shows it as a kind of madness answerable to nothing but itself.
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