Dom Casmurro 118.13 · 118.13

O pensamento fugidio

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Talvez o simples pensamento me transluzisse cá fora, e ela me fugisse outrora irritada ou acanhada, e agora por um movimento invencível...

Perhaps the simple thought shone through me here outside, and she fled from me formerly irritated or shy, and now by an invincible movement...

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The narrator reflects on a thought that might have been visible and how it would have been received.

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The narrator speculates that a thought might have been visible externally, causing a female figure to react differently in the past compared to the present.

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