The last fetters loosed
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e desatando as ultimas peias, que ainda o tolhião na expansão de seos abominaveis instinctos.
and loosing the last fetters that still checked him in the unleashing of his abominable instincts.
The metaphor turns to bondage — and reverses it. 'Peias' are the hobbles put on an animal's legs; the father's life was the last set of fetters on Leôncio, and death has 'desatado,' untied them. The chapter's terrible irony is set: the master is freed to loose his 'abominaveis instinctos' precisely as his power to enslave becomes total. One man's liberty is another woman's doom.
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