Dom Casmurro 116.3 · 116.3

Confissão de um casamento

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Para quem chegou, como eu, a arrenegar deste casamento, era duro confessar que ele foi uma verdadeira bênção do Céu. Que digna senhora nos saiu a criança travessa de Mata-cavalos!

For someone who, like me, had come to renounce this marriage, it was hard to confess that it was a true blessing from heaven. What a dignified lady the mischievous child from Mata-cavalos turned out to be!

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O narrador reflete sobre o casamento de alguém, reconhecendo que foi uma bênção.

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The narrator admits that despite having rejected the marriage, it proved to be a blessing, and the once mischievous girl became a dignified lady.

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