'First the inventory'
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— E’-me preciso em primeiro lugar dar balanço e fazer o inventario da casa de meo pae.
— It is needful for me first of all to take stock and make the inventory of my father's estate.
The excuse is dressed as diligence: before anything, he must 'dar balanço e fazer o inventario,' take stock and inventory his father's estate. It is the perfect stall — plausible, necessary-sounding, open-ended. Estate business becomes the instrument of delay, a screen of legitimate-seeming tasks behind which he keeps Isaura exactly where she is.
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