My mates
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— Minhas camaradas,— dizia a suas vizinhas uma creoula idosa, matreira e sabida em todos os mysterios da casa desde os tempos dos senhores velhos,
'My mates,' an old creole woman, sly and versed in all the secrets of the house since the old masters' day, said to her neighbours,
The chapter's chorus-leader is introduced by her credentials: old, sly, and knowing every secret of the house since the previous generation. She is the plantation's living memory, and Guimarães uses her the way a Greek play uses its nurse — to tell what the principals cannot say aloud.
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