Capitu's doubt
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Você deixa seminário, deixa sua mãe, deixa tudo, para me ver morrer? Não fale em morrer, Capitu! Capitu teve um risinho descorado e incrédulo, e com a taquara escreveu uma palavra no chão, inclinei -me e li: mentiroso. Era tão estranho tudo aquilo, que não achei resposta.
You leave seminary, leave your mother, leave everything, to see me die? Don't speak of dying, Capitu! Capitu had a pale and incredulous little laugh, and with the bamboo stick wrote a word on the ground, I leaned and read: liar. Everything was so strange that I found no answer.
The narrator is confronted by Capitu's disbelief in his devotion.
Capitu expresses disbelief in the narrator's devotion by writing 'liar' on the ground, leaving him speechless.
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