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EXPLANATION

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That night I slept badly.

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The next morning, I had
a headache...

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and pretended to be indisposed,
so as not to go to the seminary...

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so I could speak to Capitu.

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She might be angry with
me, not want me...

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and prefer the dandy rider.

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Wanted to settle everything.
Hear her out.

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That's outrageous, Bento!

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I can't believe this after
our oaths...

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And judge her.

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I don't know him, all
I know is he passes here

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in the afternoon,
like so many others.

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And if I did look at him it's just
proof there's nothing between us.

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If there were, I'd try
to deceive you.

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And in any case, he's
going to be married.

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He's getting married?

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With a girl from Barbonos
Street.

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Oh really?

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But to avoid further
trouble,

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shall stop going to
the window.

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ONE SECRET FOR ANOTHER

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I was thinking of coming to
visit you if you delayed another day.

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-Are you all right?
-Yes.

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You seem so distracted.

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You should disguise it.

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I too am distracted but
I keep myself in check.

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So I seem...

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Yes, sometimes you don't listen,
gazing into nothing.

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Disguise it, Santiago.

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I have my reasons.

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I doubt anyone becomes distracted
for no reason.

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Escobar...

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What is it?

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You're my friend, and
I'm your friend too.

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And here at the seminary you're
the person who has most penetrated

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my heart.

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Outside, apart from
my family,

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I don't really have
a friend.

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If I said the same thing
it wouldn't sound right...

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as if I was just repeating you.

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But the truth is I don't
have any friends here,

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you're the first and
I think they've noticed.

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But I don't care about that.

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Can you keep a secret?

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If you ask it is because you doubt
it, and in that case...

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I'm sorry, it's just an expression.

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I know how honest
you are...

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I'll pretend I'm confessing
to a priest.

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If you need absolution,
you have it.

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Escobar, I'm here but
I cannot become a priest.

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My people believe it and expect it,
but I cannot become a priest.

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- Nor can I, Santiago.
- You too?

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A secret for a secret.

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I also have no intention
of finishing the course.

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I want to go into commerce,
but say absolutely nothing...

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this must remain
between us.

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It's not that I'm not religious.

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I am, but commerce is
my passion.

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Is that all?

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What else could be?

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A person?

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It must be a girl.

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You cannot imagine the pleasure
confiding in him gave me.

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It was as an additional happiness.

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That young man's heart
who heard me, said I was right.

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And I didn't tell him everything,
nor even the best part.

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I didn't mention the combing episode,
for example.

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Needless to say...

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we returned to the subject
again and again.

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Many times. I praised Capitu's
moral qualities.

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I didn't touch on her physical graces,
nor did he ask about them.

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I merely insinuated how favorable
it was to know her by sight.

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Now it won't be possible,

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Capitu will spend a few days
with a friend in Inválidos Street.

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When she comes,
you can go.

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But you can go before,
always.

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Everyone at home liked
you very much.

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And I liked everyone, but
one must make a distinction.

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I confess that your mother is
an adorable lady.

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Isn't she?

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Yes, my mother was adorable.

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Although she was forcing me
into a career I didn't wish...

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I couldn't but sense
how adorable she was.

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Like a saint.

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It so happened that my absence was
soon tempered by Capitu's devotion.

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My mother gradually became
convinced...

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that the young lady would
make me happy.

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Capitu was the angel
in the Scripture.

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Capitu became the flower
of the house,

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the morning sunshine,
the afternoon breeze,

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the moon at night.

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My mother felt her heart,
examined her eyes...

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and my name lay between them
like a key to a future life.

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A WORD

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And why not go and see her?

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Didn't you tell me that Sancha's
father offered you his house?

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Yes.

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If that's what you want.

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Capitu should have
returned today...

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to finish some work with me.

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I'm sure her friend asked
to stay the night.

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Maybe you'll become
sweethearts.

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I didn't kill her because I had no
iron bar nor rope to hand,

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no pistol nor dagger.

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But the glance I gave her
if it could kill,

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would have resolved the matter.

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One of Providence's mistakes
was to give

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man only arms and teeth
as weapons of attack,

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and legs as weapons of escape
or defense.

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Our eyes should be enough.

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Cousin Justina escaped
mine.

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I didn't escape the effects of
insinuation...

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and on Sunday I hurried to
Inválidos Street.

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-Sancha asked you to come.
-Is she worse?

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No, sir, but she wishes
to speak to you.

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Stay here for a while.

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This is Sancha's nurse she won't
have another. I'll be right back.

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Is it really you?

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THE COUCH

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Of all the items

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of furniture only the couch
appeared to understand our situation.

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That's my opinion:
the couch brings

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together intimacy and
decorum...

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two men sitting together
may debate the destiny

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of the empire, and two women
the grace of a dress.

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But a man and a women,
by an aberration...

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in the laws of nature,
will speak of

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nothing but
themselves.

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Which is what we did.

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I vaguely recall asking her if
she would be staying long there.

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long there.

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I don't know, the fever
seems to be receding, but...

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I also recall, vaguely, that
I explained my visit to her...

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with the utmost truth, that is,
that my mother had suggested it.

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Your mother?

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Then we shall be happy!

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We'll be happy, Capitu,
we'll be happy!

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Sancha is asking for you, Capitu.

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THE PORTRAIT

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- Has her fever worsened?
- No.

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Send my regards to your mother
and cousin Justina.

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See you soon.

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All my feelings of envy
went with her.

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How could Capitu control
herself so well...

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She's a young lady.

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but not I?

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Now I saw her more often.

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Each time I thought her
taller and fuller.

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Her eyes seemed to have
a new reflection, and her mouth...

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Is it really you?

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Another empire.

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Bento, do you think Capitu
is like this portrait?

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It's of my deceased wife.

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People who knew her say
the same thing.

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Her features are similar,
especially her forehead...

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and the eyes. As for the spirit,
they're like sisters.

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Even her friendship
with Sancha.

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Her mother was such
a friend to her.

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In life there are such
strange...

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similarities.

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CALLED

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Bento!
Bento!

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Do you know my son
Manduca died?

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-Died?
-Died...

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half an hour ago,

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to be buried tomorrow.

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I sent word to
your mother,

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and she did me the kindness
of sending a few flowers

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for the coffin.

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My poor son!

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Want to see him?
Come on, see him, please.

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Saying this isn't easy but I'd rather
sin through excess than too little.

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I wanted to reply that
I didn't want to see Manduca...

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and even made
a move to get away.

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It wasn't fear,

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perhaps on another occasion I'd have
gone in with ease, out of curiosity,

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but now I was so
content!

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To see a dead body on your way
back from your girlfriend.

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Some things just don't go
together.

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I don't blame the man.

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To him, the most important thing
right then was his son.

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But don't blame me, either.

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To me, the most important
thing was Capitu.

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The problem was, the two matters
converged in the same afternoon...

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and the death of one came
putting its nose in the other.

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If I'd passed by earlier or later,
if Manduca had waited a few hours.

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Why die precisely half
an hour ago?

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Any time is suitable
for death,

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one can die perfectly well at six
or seven o'clock in the afternoon.

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I let my body do whatever
it could...

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and it ended up going in.

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A FRIEND FOR A DEAD BODY

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A friend can make up
for a dead body.

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For around
5 minutes...

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Escobar held my hand
in his...

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as if he hadn't seen me
for months.

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Will you dine with us?

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That is what I came for.

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The last time you were sick

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and I didn't get the chance
to praise your great qualities

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For the great education you gave
my good friend Santiago.

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Escobar insisted with his fine manners,
the good examples...

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the sweet and rare mother
heaven had given me.

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Too kind.

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I was just as content, as if
Escobar had been my own invention.

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It's true. At the seminary,
everyone, priests, colleagues...

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everyone only want
the best for your son.

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You've found the kindest of
friends, Bento. Utterly polite!

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Kind or not, let's hurry with
this compote and to backgammon!

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And cousin Justina couldn't
find a single defect.

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Later, yes, on the second or third
Sunday she came and confessed

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that my friend Escobar...

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was rather haughty and
had policeman's eyes

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which missed
nothing!

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They're just his eyes,
cousin Justina.

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I'm not saying they're
anyone else's.

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They're thoughtful eyes.

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Certainly.

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However, there may be some
truth in what Dona Justina says.

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One doesn't contradict the other.

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Thoughtfulness goes perfectly
well with curiosity.

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He seems curious,
certainly, but...

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To me he seems to be
a very serious young man.

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Precisely!

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Your mother is a fine looking
lady, so youthful.

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What age must she be?

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Over 40.

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Not possible! Forty years old?
She doesn't look 30!

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She looks so young and pretty.

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No wonder God gave
you such fine eyes.

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Has she been a widow
for long?

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ARITHMETIC IDEAS

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There are useless letters and
dispensable ones.

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What's the difference
between "d" and "t"?

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They have almost
the same sound.

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the same with b and p...

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the same with k and g...

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Mistakes of calligraphy.

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Now take numbers: no two provide
the same service.

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4 is 4, 7 is 7.

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And just admire the beauty with which
a 4 and a 7 together form this thing

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expressed as 11 .

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Now double it and you'll have 22.

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But the zero, the zero has an
even greater perfection.

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The value of zero is, by itself,
nothing...

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but the job of this negative sign
is actually to increase.

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A 5 alone is just a 5.

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Add two zeros, you'll have 500.

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So that which is worth nothing
can make something be worth...

251
00:17:05,558 --> 00:17:07,893
a great deal, not the case
with double letters.

252
00:17:07,994 --> 00:17:10,028
One "p" or two make no difference.

253
00:17:10,129 --> 00:17:12,497
For instance, give me a bunch
of numbers I didn't know...

254
00:17:12,598 --> 00:17:14,232
and have no way of knowing.

255
00:17:14,667 --> 00:17:18,470
Give me the number of your mother's
houses and the rents...

256
00:17:18,804 --> 00:17:21,773
of each and if I can't add
them up in two,

257
00:17:21,874 --> 00:17:23,441
in one minute,
then hang me!

258
00:17:23,543 --> 00:17:25,076
I'll take the bet!

259
00:17:28,648 --> 00:17:31,983
Consider that there were
no fewer than 9 houses...

260
00:17:32,084 --> 00:17:37,022
and that the rents varied
from 70 to 180 thousand réis.

261
00:17:37,423 --> 00:17:41,860
It all adds up to 1 conto
and 70 mil réis a month!

262
00:17:41,961 --> 00:17:45,697
All this I'd spend 3 or 4 minutes
working out on paper...

263
00:17:45,798 --> 00:17:50,168
on paper and
Escobar did it in his head.

264
00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:51,202
Right?

265
00:17:51,304 --> 00:17:53,104
Easily.

266
00:17:56,609 --> 00:17:59,344
This proves that arithmetical
ideas are simpler...

267
00:17:59,445 --> 00:18:01,513
and therefore more natural.

268
00:18:01,614 --> 00:18:04,683
Nature is simple.
Art...

269
00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:07,953
is clumsy.

270
00:18:08,054 --> 00:18:13,425
Escobar discreetly squeezed
my hand so strongly...

271
00:18:13,826 --> 00:18:15,860
that my fingers hurt to this day....

272
00:18:16,295 --> 00:18:17,896
That's just an illusion, I'm sure,

273
00:18:18,064 --> 00:18:20,966
it must be the effect of the long
endless hours I've been sitting

274
00:18:21,033 --> 00:18:23,368
...writing.

275
00:18:24,036 --> 00:18:27,572
Let us rest the pen for
a few moments.

276
00:18:30,209 --> 00:18:32,344
THE POPE

277
00:18:35,281 --> 00:18:40,085
Now it's certain, you'll soon
be out of the seminary.

278
00:18:41,854 --> 00:18:43,121
Wait till tomorrow.

279
00:18:43,222 --> 00:18:47,292
The idea is so saintly that
no sanctuary can resist it.

280
00:18:47,893 --> 00:18:49,260
Tomorrow, Bento.

281
00:18:49,395 --> 00:18:50,829
But is it certain?

282
00:18:51,097 --> 00:18:52,697
Utterly certain!

283
00:18:52,832 --> 00:18:55,567
He revealed a mystery to me.

284
00:18:55,668 --> 00:18:58,203
According to him, my mother
regretted

285
00:18:58,304 --> 00:19:01,373
what she did, and
wanted me out of there...

286
00:19:01,474 --> 00:19:08,279
but understood that the vow's moral
bond held her irredeemably to it.

287
00:19:08,381 --> 00:19:14,219
So the two of us would go to Rome
to appeal to the Pope for absolution.

288
00:19:17,189 --> 00:19:18,757
What do you think?

289
00:19:23,095 --> 00:19:25,764
I say no more, for the chapter
must be finished...

290
00:19:25,865 --> 00:19:28,266
but he didn't finish the speech,

291
00:19:28,868 --> 00:19:33,204
saw my mother's relieved soul
I saw Capitu's happy soul.

292
00:19:33,205 --> 00:19:34,706
You'll forget me completely.

293
00:19:34,807 --> 00:19:36,374
- Never!
- You'll forget.

294
00:19:36,475 --> 00:19:38,843
If Capitu thought it too far,
I wouldn't go.

295
00:19:38,944 --> 00:19:42,947
They say Europe is so pretty,
and especially Italy.

296
00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:45,016
Isn't that where the soprano
singers come from?

297
00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:46,384
I had to listen to her.

298
00:19:46,485 --> 00:19:47,986
Is there no other way?

299
00:19:48,287 --> 00:19:50,989
Dona Glória is anxious for you
to leave the seminary.

300
00:19:51,290 --> 00:19:53,992
Yes, but she thinks she is
trapped by the vow.

301
00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,528
Swear that if you go you'll
return in six months?

302
00:19:56,629 --> 00:19:57,662
I swear.

303
00:19:57,663 --> 00:19:59,264
-By God's name?
-By God's name, by everything.

304
00:19:59,398 --> 00:20:01,633
I swear that in six months
I'll be back.

305
00:20:01,834 --> 00:20:03,702
What if the Pope hasn't
yet released you?

306
00:20:03,769 --> 00:20:05,236
I'll say he has.

307
00:20:05,404 --> 00:20:07,038
And what if you lie?

308
00:20:12,078 --> 00:20:15,146
A SUBSTITUTE

309
00:20:19,452 --> 00:20:23,021
I believe in you, in your oath.

310
00:20:23,923 --> 00:20:26,124
But perhaps there is
another solution.

311
00:20:27,126 --> 00:20:28,693
Think about it.

312
00:20:28,694 --> 00:20:30,028
And Escobar.

313
00:20:30,096 --> 00:20:31,496
No, Bento.

314
00:20:37,870 --> 00:20:41,272
Your mother made a vow to give
God a priest, right?

315
00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:44,309
Then give Him a priest
other than yourself.

316
00:20:45,277 --> 00:20:48,246
She could very well take in
a little orphan boy

317
00:20:48,347 --> 00:20:50,448
have him ordained
at her expense...

318
00:20:51,183 --> 00:20:54,285
and a priest will be given to the
altar, without your having...

319
00:20:54,386 --> 00:20:57,055
I understand! That's right!

320
00:20:57,156 --> 00:20:58,690
Consult the protonotary.

321
00:20:58,791 --> 00:21:02,093
He'll say whether it comes to the same
thing I'll consult him myself.

322
00:21:02,328 --> 00:21:04,162
And if he hesitates, speak
to the bishop.

323
00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:06,531
Yes, that must be it.

324
00:21:06,699 --> 00:21:09,100
Truly, the vow is fulfilled
there be no loss of priest.

325
00:21:09,201 --> 00:21:13,605
On the economic side it is easy, your
mother would spend the same as on you,

326
00:21:14,473 --> 00:21:17,976
an orphan would require
the same comfort.

327
00:21:18,811 --> 00:21:20,979
She has a good income.

328
00:21:21,847 --> 00:21:25,817
One conto and seventy
thousand réis...

329
00:21:25,818 --> 00:21:26,985
There is no other solution.

330
00:21:27,086 --> 00:21:29,120
-And we get out together.
-You too?

331
00:21:30,689 --> 00:21:33,691
Yes. I'm going to improve
my Latin and then leave.

332
00:21:33,893 --> 00:21:35,326
Forget theology.

333
00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:38,296
Even Latin, what use will
that be in commerce?

334
00:21:40,533 --> 00:21:42,400
In hoc signo vinces.

335
00:21:42,501 --> 00:21:44,903
Under this symbol ye
shall triumph!

336
00:21:51,243 --> 00:21:53,444
THE DEPARTURE

337
00:22:57,209 --> 00:23:00,445
My mother hesitated a little,
but yielded in the end...

338
00:23:00,613 --> 00:23:03,948
after Father Cabral, who consulted
the bishop...

339
00:23:03,949 --> 00:23:07,252
came back and told her it could be.

340
00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:10,021
I left the seminary
at the end of the year.

341
00:23:10,256 --> 00:23:13,358
I was then just over 17.

342
00:23:27,773 --> 00:23:35,146
I turned 18, 19,
20, 21.

343
00:23:36,482 --> 00:23:40,818
At 22 I was
a law graduate.

344
00:23:42,154 --> 00:23:44,422
Everything around me
changed.

345
00:23:46,492 --> 00:23:48,993
<i>My mother decided</i>
<i>to age.</i>

346
00:23:49,128 --> 00:23:54,065
<i>Even so her hair only</i>
<i>turned gray reluctantly.</i>

347
00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:57,535
<i>Uncle Cosme had heart trouble</i>

348
00:23:57,836 --> 00:24:01,673
<i>and cousin Justina</i>
<i>was just older.</i>

349
00:24:04,677 --> 00:24:09,147
<i>José Dias too, but not enough</i>
<i>to miss coming to see me...</i>

350
00:24:09,281 --> 00:24:13,985
<i>graduate and drive down</i>
<i>the mountains with me...</i>

351
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:19,023
<i>jolly and affectionate as</i>
<i>if he were the graduate.</i>

352
00:24:22,728 --> 00:24:27,799
<i>Capitu's mother had died, and</i>
<i>her father had retired.</i>

353
00:24:30,636 --> 00:24:33,905
<i>Escobar began trading</i>
<i>coffee.</i>

354
00:24:34,306 --> 00:24:36,541
<i>Cousin Justina was of</i>
<i>the opinion that he was toying...</i>

355
00:24:36,642 --> 00:24:43,281
<i>with the idea of asking</i>
<i>my mother to remarry.</i>

356
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,552
But if he did have such an idea,

357
00:24:48,187 --> 00:24:53,691
one mustn't forget
the great difference in age.

358
00:25:06,205 --> 00:25:08,272
Our separation didn't cool
our friendship...

359
00:25:09,375 --> 00:25:13,811
Escobar was the third party in the
correspondence between me and Capitu.

360
00:25:14,613 --> 00:25:17,415
Ever since he saw her he
encouraged me greatly in our love.

361
00:25:18,050 --> 00:25:20,952
And Escobar married...
guess who?

362
00:25:21,086 --> 00:25:24,022
He married the lovely Sancha,
Capitu's friend,

363
00:25:24,123 --> 00:25:26,724
almost sister,
in fact once...

364
00:25:26,959 --> 00:25:32,463
writing to me, she called her
"your little sister-in-law".

365
00:25:33,065 --> 00:25:35,933
Thus are affections and relationships
formed...

366
00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:40,438
and adventures and books.

367
00:26:39,865 --> 00:26:42,033
My little Bento!

368
00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:03,387
This is your son!

369
00:27:07,025 --> 00:27:08,493
Son, this is your mother!

370
00:27:08,594 --> 00:27:14,999
Brother Cosme, look.
Isn't he just like his father?

371
00:27:15,534 --> 00:27:20,171
Yes, there really is something
in the eyes, his facial features.

372
00:27:20,272 --> 00:27:23,541
He's his father,
a little more modern.

373
00:27:24,243 --> 00:27:27,712
Now tell me, sister Glória, wasn't
it better that he insisted on...

374
00:27:27,813 --> 00:27:29,580
not becoming a priest?

375
00:27:29,681 --> 00:27:32,550
This rascal would never
make an able priest.

376
00:27:32,985 --> 00:27:34,585
Bento!

377
00:27:34,686 --> 00:27:37,021
Dr. Bento Santiago!

378
00:27:44,530 --> 00:27:50,067
My mother kissed me with
a tenderness I can hardly describe.

379
00:27:51,403 --> 00:27:55,506
Uncle Cosme, to cheer her up,
called me "Doctor"...

380
00:27:56,375 --> 00:28:03,114
as did José Dias and everyone
at the house, the cousin, slaves.

381
00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:29,367
THOU SHALT BE HAPPY, BENTO

382
00:29:33,038 --> 00:29:35,106
<i>Thou shalt be happy, Bento.</i>

383
00:29:37,109 --> 00:29:40,611
- And why wouldn't you be happy?
- Did you hear?

384
00:29:41,246 --> 00:29:42,613
Hear what?

385
00:29:42,814 --> 00:29:44,949
A voice saying I'd be
happy?

386
00:29:45,050 --> 00:29:50,154
That's good! You yourself
said it.

387
00:29:50,689 --> 00:29:54,525
I could still swear it was
the voice of a fairy.

388
00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:59,096
Naturally fairies, expelled from
tales and verses...

389
00:29:59,331 --> 00:30:01,766
have penetrated
our hearts and

390
00:30:02,067 --> 00:30:04,769
now speak from within.

391
00:30:04,870 --> 00:30:08,306
This one I hear clearly and distinctly.

392
00:30:09,207 --> 00:30:12,777
She must be a cousin of the
Witches of Scotland:

393
00:30:12,878 --> 00:30:17,882
Thou shalt be king, Macbeth!
"Thou shalt be happy, Bento."

394
00:30:17,883 --> 00:30:22,787
After all, it's the same
prophecy...

395
00:30:23,088 --> 00:30:27,358
the same Universal and Eternal air.

396
00:30:31,363 --> 00:30:38,602
You should be happy, you deserve it,
as you deserved this diploma.

397
00:30:39,938 --> 00:30:43,874
And happiness isn't just glory,

398
00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:48,579
it's also something else.

399
00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:53,818
Oh! You didn't confide everything
to José Dias!

400
00:30:54,453 --> 00:30:57,588
Poor José Dias is cast
aside,

401
00:30:57,723 --> 00:31:00,057
a spent force, worth
nothing.

402
00:31:01,126 --> 00:31:05,496
Now it is the young,
the Escobars...

403
00:31:07,132 --> 00:31:08,699
well, anyway...

404
00:31:11,636 --> 00:31:13,838
the old also know how
to love.

405
00:31:15,307 --> 00:31:16,741
But what is it?

406
00:31:18,009 --> 00:31:19,810
How do you mean?

407
00:31:19,911 --> 00:31:23,581
That intimacy of neighbors had
to end up...

408
00:31:23,682 --> 00:31:26,884
like this, which is truly a blessing
from heaven.

409
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,156
For she's an angel,
an utter angel.

410
00:31:33,191 --> 00:31:36,227
Why is it she didn't also tell me
what the others knew...

411
00:31:36,361 --> 00:31:39,797
and which is fully known
and approved here at home?

412
00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:41,499
Mother really approves?

413
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:45,169
Quite so. We have spoken about it
and she was kind enough...

414
00:31:45,270 --> 00:31:48,205
to ask my opinion.

415
00:31:48,206 --> 00:31:51,342
I told her I couldn't wish for
a finer daughter-in-law...

416
00:31:52,310 --> 00:31:59,083
kind, discreet, well-mannered,
our friend.

417
00:31:59,084 --> 00:32:01,051
And a woman of the house.

418
00:32:01,153 --> 00:32:04,321
Since her mother's death,
she has taken care of everything.

419
00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:06,157
Pádua, now he's
retired...

420
00:32:06,291 --> 00:32:08,492
receives his pension
and hands it over to his daughter.

421
00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:11,395
It is Capitu who pays the bills,
draws up the list of expenses...

422
00:32:11,496 --> 00:32:13,664
takes care of provisions,
everything!

423
00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:16,567
And what about her good looks?

424
00:32:16,568 --> 00:32:20,004
Ah, mon Dieu...

425
00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:23,474
you know better than anyone.

426
00:32:25,811 --> 00:32:28,546
Has mother consulted you
about our marriage?

427
00:32:29,347 --> 00:32:31,782
Not exactly,

428
00:32:32,751 --> 00:32:37,221
but she did ask whether
Capitu would make a good wife.

429
00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:42,126
It was I, in my answer, who spoke
of a daughter-in-law.

430
00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:48,032
Dona Glória didn't contradict me
and even looked amused.

431
00:33:00,078 --> 00:33:06,851
Thou shalt be happy, Bento!

432
00:33:08,787 --> 00:33:18,329
-Thou shalt be happy, Bento!
-Thou shalt be happy, Bento!

433
00:33:18,463 --> 00:33:23,934
My mother, some weeks later when
I went to ask her permission to marry,

434
00:33:24,035 --> 00:33:26,670
as well as her consent,
pronounced the same prophecy.

435
00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:28,539
You shall be happy, my son!

436
00:33:28,707 --> 00:33:31,175
A mother's own version.

437
00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:39,383
Then let us all be happy, before
the reader comes to his senses...

438
00:33:39,518 --> 00:33:41,685
dead from waiting.

439
00:33:41,820 --> 00:33:49,126
We were married! It was in 1865,
on a March afternoon.

440
00:34:04,809 --> 00:34:06,644
<i>In fact it was raining.</i>

441
00:34:07,012 --> 00:34:11,982
<i>When we got up to Alto da Tijuca which</i>
<i>was where our newly-weds' nest was...</i>

442
00:34:12,284 --> 00:34:17,755
<i>the sky gathered</i>
<i>in the rain and lit the stars.</i>

443
00:34:17,923 --> 00:34:23,561
Not only the familiar ones, but those
which would only be discovered

444
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:27,131
many centuries from now.

445
00:34:27,632 --> 00:34:29,300
IN HEAVEN

446
00:34:39,711 --> 00:34:44,248
Ye wives be in subjection
to your own husbands...

447
00:34:47,018 --> 00:34:50,721
Whose adorning let it not be
that outward adorning of plaiting...

448
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:54,191
the hair, and of wearing of gold...

449
00:34:55,226 --> 00:34:59,630
but let it be
the hidden man

450
00:35:00,665 --> 00:35:02,333
of the heart.

451
00:35:03,802 --> 00:35:08,772
I sit in the shadow of that
which I had so much desired.

452
00:35:12,143 --> 00:35:15,112
Rest, for I shall not
attempt a description.

453
00:35:15,714 --> 00:35:20,451
Not even the human tongue has
sufficient apt forms.

454
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:25,255
It is true that Capitu told me
that I was the only lace...

455
00:35:25,357 --> 00:35:28,058
and only adornment
she would wear.

456
00:35:28,893 --> 00:35:33,731
To which I responded that
my spouse would always have...

457
00:35:34,032 --> 00:35:38,569
the finest lace
in the world.

458
00:35:54,619 --> 00:35:57,688
No external sign revealed
the march of time.

459
00:35:58,023 --> 00:36:01,291
Thus was our week
in Tijuca.

460
00:36:28,219 --> 00:36:30,721
A MARRIED WOMAN

461
00:36:56,514 --> 00:36:59,483
Sometimes we returned
to the past...

462
00:37:01,753 --> 00:37:04,054
and enjoyed

463
00:37:05,490 --> 00:37:10,194
recalling sad times and
calamities.

464
00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:20,738
What is it?

465
00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:25,676
I enjoy recalling our
teenage years...

466
00:37:25,810 --> 00:37:27,511
I was remembering José Dias.

467
00:37:27,612 --> 00:37:31,048
He conspired against our union
and in the end celebrated our bond.

468
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:34,785
All began with
his accusation.

469
00:37:43,561 --> 00:37:45,195
When will we go back to town?

470
00:37:48,666 --> 00:37:50,467
Have you already grown tired of me?

471
00:37:51,536 --> 00:37:53,303
- Me?
- It would appear so.

472
00:37:53,905 --> 00:37:56,640
You always have to be such
a child, Bento.

473
00:37:57,142 --> 00:38:00,377
So I've waited so many years
to grow tired in 7 days?

474
00:38:00,645 --> 00:38:05,783
No, Bento, I said that
because...

475
00:38:06,918 --> 00:38:09,419
I think perhaps the others
might like to see us

476
00:38:10,221 --> 00:38:12,022
and be wondering if we're ill...

477
00:38:13,324 --> 00:38:15,592
and I confess that, for my part,
I'd like to see father.

478
00:38:15,693 --> 00:38:17,661
- Then we'll go tomorrow.
- No!

479
00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:26,270
The weather must
be cloudy.

480
00:38:32,177 --> 00:38:35,579
Once or twice, we spoke
of returning...

481
00:38:36,047 --> 00:38:41,285
but the mornings were
always either rainy or sunny...

482
00:38:41,486 --> 00:38:47,224
and we waited for a cloudy day,
which refused to appear.

483
00:38:47,358 --> 00:38:48,692
Then we'll go tomorrow.

484
00:38:51,262 --> 00:38:52,496
No.

485
00:38:56,501 --> 00:38:58,435
The weather must be cloudy.

486
00:38:59,938 --> 00:39:05,309
<i>But our impatience continued, and</i>
<i>we returned on a sunny day.</i>

487
00:39:07,245 --> 00:39:10,647
<i>The joy with which she put on</i>
<i>her married woman's hat...</i>

488
00:39:10,849 --> 00:39:14,551
<i>the married woman's way in which</i>
<i>she gave me her hand to get in...</i>

489
00:39:14,652 --> 00:39:18,922
<i>and out of the car, and</i>
<i>her arm to walk on the street...</i>

490
00:39:20,024 --> 00:39:26,897
All this showed me that
the cause of Capitu's impatience...

491
00:39:28,166 --> 00:39:32,836
had been for the external
signs of our new marital status.

492
00:39:34,272 --> 00:39:38,909
It wasn't enough to be married
within four walls.

493
00:39:40,345 --> 00:39:45,616
She needed the rest of
the world too.

494
00:40:07,872 --> 00:40:11,642
I'd invent outings so
I'd been seen and envied.

495
00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:15,245
On the street, many curious
folk turned their heads...

496
00:40:15,380 --> 00:40:19,016
others stopped,
a few asked:

497
00:40:19,717 --> 00:40:21,585
Who are they?

498
00:40:22,553 --> 00:40:27,057
One knowledgeable person explained:
"That's Dr. Santiago...

499
00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:31,328
who a few days ago married
that young lady, Dona Capitolina."

500
00:40:31,663 --> 00:40:35,265
She's a fine filly!

501
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:37,734
Filly is vulgar.

502
00:40:38,503 --> 00:40:40,637
José Dias found a better one.

503
00:40:41,205 --> 00:40:45,008
HAPPINESS HAS A GOOD SOUL

504
00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:48,712
He was the only person to visit
us during those days in Tijuca...

505
00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:52,449
bringing greetings from
our families and his own words...

506
00:40:52,550 --> 00:40:55,752
but words which were pure music.

507
00:40:56,754 --> 00:41:02,426
I don't set them down here in order
to save paper, but they were delicious.

508
00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:24,982
One day, he compared us

509
00:41:25,116 --> 00:41:29,653
to two birds raised in nooks
on neighboring rooftops.

510
00:41:30,254 --> 00:41:35,459
You can imagine the rest,
the birds ruffling their feathers...

511
00:41:36,928 --> 00:41:39,763
and flying up into the sky!

512
00:41:44,268 --> 00:41:45,902
Music!