Category: Novels
THE cuckoo-clock in the dining-room had just struck eleven. Jorge, reclining in an antique easy-chair covered with dark leather, closed the volume of Louis Figuier that he had been listlessly turning over, stretched himself, yawned, and said,--
THE cuckoo-clock in the dining-room had just struck eleven. Jorge, reclining in an antique easy-chair covered with dark leather, closed the volume of Louis Figuier that he had b...
2. CHAPTER II.ON Sunday evenings a number of intimate friends--a sort of _conversazione_--gathered in Jorge’s parlor around the antique lamp of rose-colored porcelain. They drank tea and chat...
3. CHAPTER III.TWELVE days had passed since Jorge’s departure; and Luiza, notwithstanding the heat and the dust, resolved to dress herself and pay a visit to Leopoldina, although she was well...
4. CHAPTER IV.AT about three in the afternoon Juliana entered the kitchen and threw herself down on one of the wooden chairs. She was so exhausted, she said, that she could scarcely stand. It...
5. CHAPTER V.The gentleman, then, was a cousin. These visits had lost all their interest for Juliana. Her malicious curiosity, swelled out to its fullest proportions, suffered a momentary co...
6. CHAPTER VI.AT about four in the afternoon Sebastião went again to Luiza’s. He found the same gentleman with her as before. He went away thoughtful, without seeing her. No doubt the visitor...
7. CHAPTER VII.MEANTIME Luiza and Bazilio were seated, tranquil and happy, in the parlor within, the half-drawn curtains making a soft obscurity in the room. Luiza wore a fresh white morning-g...
8. CHAPTER VIII.ON the following day, at an early hour in the afternoon, Joanna, leaning back in an old willow arm-chair, was already sleeping the siesta. As she rose at five every morning, and...
9. CHAPTER IX.He had been waiting, in fact, for half an hour. When Joanna, her face flushed, and looking as if she had been suddenly roused from sleep, opened the door for him and told him th...
10. CHAPTER X.NEXT morning Juliana entered her mistress’s bedroom with a letter in her hand, saying, with an air of mystery, that a servant from the hotel had brought it, and was waiting down...
11. CHAPTER XI.And her attitude towards her mistress became more servile than ever. She ran joyfully, with an obsequious smile upon her lips, to open the door for Luiza when she returned home...
12. CHAPTER XII.HOW heavily did the solitude of her room weigh upon Luiza in the evening! She felt impatient to renew the sensations of the past few hours. She tried to read, but after a few mo...
13. CHAPTER XIII.ON coming to herself again, Luiza’s first impression was that of two unknown faces bending over her. A moment afterwards one of them disappeared, and then the sharp sound of a g...
14. CHAPTER XIV.A horrible sensation of dread and anguish seized upon her heart. She began to dress herself, trembling at the thought of seeing Juliana again. She had just come to the determina...
15. CHAPTER XV.BAZILIO left the house very much agitated. Luiza’s pretensions, her _bourgeois_ terrors, and the vulgar triviality of the whole affair irritated him to such a degree that for a...
16. CHAPTER XVI.WHAT a night of anguish Luiza spent! No sooner did she fall asleep than she awoke again in terror. She opened her eyes in the half-obscurity of the room, ever conscious of the s...
17. CHAPTER XVII.“The bird has flown, my dear,” the latter had said to her. “It is a pity, for you might have made a good sum out of the affair; but who could have guessed that the lover would g...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.AT noon on the same day Jorge and Luiza were conversing together after breakfast in the dining-room, as on the eve of the departure of the former for Alemtejo. But they were not...
19. CHAPTER XIX.AT about this time a paragraph appeared one Saturday in the “Diario do Governo,” announcing that the order of Santiago had been conferred upon the Counsellor Accacio in recognit...
20. CHAPTER XX.“Excellently,” replied Jorge. “A great deal of wine was drunk, toasts were proposed--” And suddenly interrupting himself, “By the bye, what took you every day to the Arroios?” h...
21. CHAPTER XXI.ONE morning, some days afterwards, Jorge, who had forgotten that it was a feast-day, found the office closed, on going to the Department, and returned home. Joanna was standing...
22. CHAPTER XXII.AT nine o’clock Sebastião left his house, and braving the sharp northeast wind that made the gas-jets flicker inside the globes, went slowly to the house of Vicente Azurara, a c...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.LUIZA passed a feverish and uneasy night. In the morning Jorge was alarmed by the frequency of her pulse and the heat of her skin. He, too, owing to a feeling of nervousness, ha...
24. CHAPTER XXIV.ON the following morning Jorge went for the first time in some days to the Department, but he did not remain long. In the street the presence of strangers and of acquaintances w...
25. CHAPTER XXV.AFTER Luiza’s funeral Jorge dismissed the servants, and went himself to stay with Sebastião. At about nine o’clock in the evening of the same day the Counsellor Accacio was walk...