Dom Casmurro 54.4 · 54.4

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E falou -me em prosa de uma infinidade de coisas do dia, a vida cara, um sermão do Padre X..., uma vigairaria mineira... Contrário a isso foi um seminarista que não seguiu a carreira. Chamava-se... Não é preciso dizer o nome; baste o caso. Tinha composto um Panegírico de Santa Mônica, elogiado por algumas pessoas e então lido entre os seminaristas.

And he spoke to me in prose about an infinity of things of the day, the expensive life, a sermon by Father X..., a vicarage from Minas Gerais... Contrary to that was a seminarist who did not follow the career. He was called... It is not necessary to say the name; suffice the case. He had composed a Panegyric of Saint Monica, praised by some people and then read among the seminarists.

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The narrator recalls a conversation about various topics, including a seminarist who did not pursue the career.

A note on this passage

The narrator recalls a conversation about various topics, including a seminarist who did not pursue the career and had composed a panegyric that was read among his peers.

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