'Reorganizing the house'
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Vagando daqui para ali por toda a casa, como quem dava ordens para reformar o serviço domestico, que dahi em diante ia correr todo por sua conta,
Wandering here and there about the whole house, like one giving orders to reorganize the domestic service, which from then on would run entirely under his charge,
The verb 'vagando,' wandering, restless — the same word used of the distraught Isaura in Chapter VIII — now marks Leôncio's prowling. He drapes his hunt in administrative business, pretending to 'reformar o serviço domestico,' reorganize the household, now that it runs 'por sua conta,' under his sole authority. The death of his father has made him absolute master of the house, and he uses that power first of all to isolate his prey.
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