'As one repels an insult'
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eu repelliria como quem repelle um insulto, todo aquelle que ousasse vir offerecer-me dinheiro pela tua liberdade.
I would repel, as one repels an insult, anyone who dared come offer me money for your freedom.
The pose of wounded honour is complete: he would fling back any offer of money for her freedom 'como quem repelle um insulto,' as one repels an insult. He is, of course, describing exactly what he did to old Miguel in Chapter VI — refusing the ten contos. But he recasts that cruel refusal as chivalry: he kept her not out of greed or lust but out of reverence too high for gold. The reader knows the truth beneath the flourish, and Isaura, hearing it, knows her father's ransom will never be accepted.
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