Dom Casmurro 131.3 · 131.3

Um amigo e o defuncto Escobar

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Só vi duas pessoas assim, um amigo de papae e o defuncto Escobar.

“I have seen only two people with eyes like that: a friend of papa's and the late Escobar.”

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She has seen that look in only two people: a friend of her father's and the late Escobar.

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Capitu innocently names Escobar — the dead friend — planting, without knowing it, the seed of Bento's jealousy.

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