So the next morning, Amaro was, in the words of the canon, “approach will give great mana.”

First, however, explained below in the priest escriptorio your master plan: first, he would say to D. Josepha that the canon was in entire ignorance of the disaster Ameliasinha, and that he, Amaro knew, not in secret confession (if nesse could not reveal) but by the secret confidences of two-and Amelia married man that seduced! … The married man, yeah … In short because it was necessary to prove the impossibility that had old D’repair a legitimate …

The canon was scratching his head displeased:

This is not going well-arranged, he said. My sister knows that married men were not the Rua da Misericordia.

-And Arthur Couceiro? Amaro said, without scruples.

The canon burst out laughing, with gusto. Poor Arthur, without teeth, full of children, with lamb his eyes sad, accuser of losing virgins! … No, that was good!

Do not handle, parish friend, will not start! Another, another … [519]