The condition
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Contaria os meus botes e os dela, a graça de um e a prontidão de outro, e o sangue correndo, e o furor na alma, até ao meu golpe final que foi este:— Pois sim, Capitu, você ouvirá a minha missa nova, mas com uma condição. Ao que ela respondeu:— Vossa Reverendíssima pode falar.— Promete uma coisa?
I would count my thrusts and hers, the grace of one and the readiness of the other, and the blood running, and the fury in the soul, until my final blow which was this: — Well yes, Capitu, you will hear my new mass, but with a condition. To which she answered: — Your Most Reverend can speak. — Promise a thing?
The narrator recounts the details of the fight and proposes a condition to Capitu.
The narrator describes the intensity of the fight and then proposes a condition to Capitu regarding her attending his first mass, to which she responds formally.
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