A thing we shall call a garden
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No angulo que esta asa fazia com o resto da casa, havia uma cousa que chamaremos jardim, e que de facto era uma imitação graciosa de toda essa natureza rica, vigorosa e esplendida, que a vista abraçava do alto do rochedo.
In the angle that this wing made with the rest of the house, there was a thing that we shall call a garden, and which in fact was a graceful imitation of all that rich, vigorous and splendid nature, which the eye took in from the height of the crag.
In the angle this wing makes with the rest of the house lies what he half-jokingly calls a garden: a graceful miniature of all the rich wild nature the eye took in from the height.
The narrator's wink — "a thing we shall call a garden" — admits the word is too grand for it, then redeems it: it copies in miniature the whole wild panorama below. Alencar's theme surfaces here, art imitating a Brazilian nature that is itself already art.
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