The promise
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Depois, ainda falou gravemente e longamente sobre a promessa que fizera; não me disse as circunstâncias, nem a ocasião, nem os motivos dela, coisas que só vim a saber mais tarde. Afirmou o principal, isto é, que a havia de cumprir, em pagamento a Deus
Afterwards, he still spoke seriously and at length about the promise he had made; he did not tell me the circumstances, nor the occasion, nor the motives of her, things that I only came to know later. He affirmed the main, that is, that he had to fulfill it, in payment to God.
The narrator reflects on a serious conversation about a promise made.
The narrator recalls that someone spoke gravely about a promise, without revealing details, but affirmed the obligation to fulfill it as a payment to God.
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