Dom Casmurro 145.21 · 145.21

Visita à prima Justina

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Se fosse vivo José Dias, acharia nele a minha própria pessoa. Prima Justina quis vê-lo; mas, estando enferma, pediu-me que o levasse lá. Conhecia aquela parenta.

If José Dias were alive, he would find in him my own person. Cousin Justina wanted to see him; but, being ill, she asked me to take him there. I knew that relative.

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The setting

The narrator imagines what José Dias would think and decides to visit his cousin Justina.

A note on this passage

The narrator reflects that José Dias would see himself in the narrator, and then recounts that his cousin Justina, though ill, asked him to bring José Dias to her. The narrator already knew that relative.

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