Dom Casmurro 97.2 · 97.2

Tinha então pouco mais de dezessete

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Tinha então pouco mais de dezessete... Aqui devia ser o meio do livro, mas a inexperiência fez me ir atrás da pena, e chego quase ao fim do papel, com o melhor da narração por dizer.

I had then little more than seventeen... Here should be the middle of the book, but inexperience made me go after the pen, and I arrive almost at the end of the paper, with the best of the narration yet to say.

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The narrator comments on his youthful age and the structure of his narrative, noting that he has reached the end of the paper without telling the best part.

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