A chapter of a single sentence: the narrator says he does not know whether the next chapter could be all in its title. It serves as a pause and a wink to the reader before the birthday scene.
Analysis
The sentence answers the previous chapter, which resolved in a title what could have been analysis, and warns that the next one does not allow the same shortcut. The birthday scene holds too much to fit in a summary: the diamond, Sofia's tear, the news of the marriage. It serves as a pause and as a warning to the reader that reading "with a pause" must return.
Rubião avoids Sofia out of wounded pride, but on learning from Cristiano Palha that she has a birthday on Wednesday, he promises to attend the dinner, asks Palha for two contos, which he hands over with indifference, and buys a magnificent diamond to send her. Sofia, on receiving the necklace with the diamond, tries it on before the mirror and thinks that man adores her. At the dinner, among select guests, Rubião is firm and superior; afterward, in the study, Sofia explains to him that the letter was the committee's circular, and, on seeing a tear run down to the corner of her mouth, he swears he believes everything. She then gives him the news that Maria Benedita is going to marry Carlos Maria, in a speech longer than the haste she claims.
Analysis
Rubião avoids Sofia out of wounded pride, finding "a lack of pride" in the cheerful farewell she gave him from the carriage, but he accepts Palha's invitation, asks for two contos, and sends a diamond. At the dinner, more firm, he swears he believes everything on seeing a tear run down to the corner of her mouth: he wants to believe. Sofia explains the letter in a hurry, serious and moved, and the speech about her cousin's marriage comes out longer than her haste.
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Rubião realizes that the fiancé of Maria Benedita is Carlos Maria, and that he had taken one person for another. He already plans a carriage and a present, congratulates the young woman, who blushes with contentment, and watches her leave the way one watches a daughter go.
Analysis
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The narrator promises the short story of Maria Benedita's marriage and says that, without the Alagoas epidemic, perhaps there would have been no marriage: catastrophes are useful. He then tells the story of the drunkard who asks leave to light his cigar in the blaze of the hut.
Analysis
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Maria Benedita has loved Carlos Maria since the ball on Rua dos Arcos, and she keeps his name to herself, out of shame and for fear that her cousin, Sofia, will slacken in the task of finding her a husband. With the Alagoas epidemic, the committee that Sofia organizes brings Maria Benedita close to Dona Fernanda, the wife of a deputy, cheerful and expansive, born in Porto Alegre and a cousin of Carlos Maria. Dona Fernanda tries to marry her cousin to a young woman from Pelotas, whom he rejects with irony, and, seeing Maria Benedita sad, decides to marry her to him. At the country house at Mata-Cavalos, she draws the confession from the girl, without the name: a passion that has become pure adoration, "I love him as I love God, who is in Heaven." Dona Fernanda replies that adoring a man who pays you no mind is poetry, and that a husband, even a bad one, is worth more than the best of dreams.
Analysis
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