'Spying on her movements'
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não fazia mais do que espreitar todos os movimentos de Isaura,
he did nothing but spy on Isaura's every movement,
Beneath the show of management, one thing occupies him: 'espreitar todos os movimentos de Isaura,' to spy on her every movement. 'Espreitar' is the verb of the stalker in ambush, watching for the gap. The hawk-and-hare image of Chapter VIII continues unbroken; the predator has narrowed the whole household down to the tracking of a single quarry.
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