Reassurance about health
Read the full text in our reader
Não é nada mau; mamãe assusta-se por tudo; não é coisa de cuidado.— Não é moléstia?— Não, senhora.— É, isso é volta de constipação. Disfarças para não tomar suadouro, mas tu estás constipado; conhece-se pela voz. Tentei rir, para mostrar que não tinha nada.
It is not bad at all; mom frightens herself by everything; it is not a thing of care. It is not illness? No, madam. That is a return of cold. You disguise to not take sweating remedy, but you are with a cold; it is known by the voice. I tried to laugh, to show that I had nothing.
The narrator tries to reassure his mother that his illness is nothing serious.
The narrator tries to downplay his mother's concern about his health, but she insists he has a cold. He attempts to laugh it off to prove he is fine.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open Dom Casmurro 41.3 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the Dom Casmurro — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
Dom Casmurro 41.3 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/domcasmurro/41.3/