Owner of a venda, the small shop of dry and wet goods that sold everything retail: provisions, kerosene, tobacco, and cachaça. In nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro it was a typical trade of Portuguese immigrants, who often started out as clerks, sleeping on the counter, until they could run a business of their own.
Where It Appears
- Chapters III to V: The Tenement Wakes and Romão Hires Jerônimo
- Chapters X to XI: The Baron's Title, the Razor Slash, and Pombinha's Visit
- Chapters XII to XIV: Marriage, the Rival Tenement, and the Plan of Revenge
- Chapters XVIII to XX: Libório, the Renovations, and Piedade's Fall
Quotes
pouco a pouco deixara totalmente de ser a amante do vendeiro, para ficar sendo só uma sua escrava, little by little she had stopped entirely being the shopkeeper's lover, to become only his slave
Chapters XVIII to XX: Libório, the Renovations, and Piedade's Fall, the narrator