Dom Casmurro 3.34 · 3.34

The detail tightens: 'quasi que não sae de lá' — he practically never leaves the place. It is offered as fact but built of hyperbole — 'quasi', almost, 'não sae', doesn't leave — the language of a watcher counting a boy's comings and goings. And there is a grim comedy in it: the surveillance José Dias describes is exactly the surveillance he is practicing, and both will be inherited by Bento himself, who will spend his life keeping just this kind of jealous account of the woman he loves.

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