Two handsome young men
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Os cavalleiros, que acabavão de apear-se, erão dous bellos e elegantes mancebos, que chegavão da villa de Campos. Do modo familiar, por que forão entrando, logo se deprehendia que era gente de casa.
The horsemen, who had just dismounted, were two handsome and elegant young men, who came from the town of Campos. By the familiar manner, in which they came in, one gathered at once that they were people of the house.
Chapter II opens on the instant Chapter I closed. The riders who had just dismounted were two handsome, elegant young men, come from the town of Campos; by the easy, at-home way they entered, one saw at once they were people of the house.
Chapter II picks up the sentence Chapter I broke off — the riders at the door — and its first act is to show us how they enter: 'do modo familiar', in the easy, at-home way of men who own the place. Where Isaura, in the last chapter, could not be sure the room was her own, these two walk in without a knock. Guimarães dresses them in the gallant vocabulary of romance — 'bellos e elegantes mancebos' — and lets the word 'mancebo' carry a faint, apt shadow: it descends from the Latin for a chattel. The handsome young master of the house comes home; the reader who has met Isaura already feels the temperature drop.
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