The slave's suspicion
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Uma preta, que veio de dentro acender o lampião do corredor, vendo -nos naquela atitude quase às escuras, riu de simpatia e murmurou, em tom que ouvíssemos, alguma coisa que não entendi bem nem mal. Capitu segredou -me que a escrava desconfiara, e ia talvez contar às outras.
A black woman, who came from inside to light the hallway lamp, seeing us in that attitude almost in the dark, laughed with sympathy and murmured, in a tone that we might hear, some thing that I understood neither well nor badly. Capitu whispered to me that the slave woman had suspected, and was perhaps going to tell the others.
A black woman comes to light the hallway lamp and sees the narrator and Capitu in a compromising position, laughing sympathetically and murmuring something they don't understand.
The narrator and Capitu are caught in a compromising position by a slave woman, who laughs and murmurs something they don't understand. Capitu suspects the slave woman will gossip.
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