Counting and recounting
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Enquanto Leoncio abre a carteira, e conta e reconta mui pausadamente nota por nota o dinheiro,
While Leôncio opens the wallet, and counts and recounts the money very slowly, note by note,
The narrator freezes the action mid-count. Leôncio's exaggerated slowness — counting the notes over and over — is theater, and the storyteller turns the stalled moment into an aside, stepping aside to introduce the man being cheated.
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