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Aproveitemos a occasião, que parece mesmo nos vir das mãos de Deos no momento, em que aqui estou chegando. Eu já preveni tudo.
Let us seize the occasion, which seems to come to us from the very hands of God at the moment I am arriving here. I have already prepared everything.
Miguel reads the empty house as grace: the chance seems to come 'das mãos de Deos', from the very hands of God, arriving exactly as he does. It is the answer to Isaura's prayer stated aloud, and the timing is offered as proof — she begged the Virgin, and in that same hour the estate emptied and her father walked in with a plan. Guimarães lets his devout characters see providence in what a modern reader might call coincidence, and does not undercut them; within the novel's faith, the deliverance is heaven's, worked through a father's love and a household's carelessness. 'Eu já preveni tudo' — I have prepared everything — sets the human labour beside the divine gift, the two hands, God's and Miguel's, doing the one work.
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