The front room
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A sala principal, o que chamamos ordinariamente sala da frente, respirava um certo luxo que parecia imposivel existir nessa época em um deserto, como era então aquelle sitio.
The main hall, the one we ordinarily call the front room, breathed a certain luxury that seemed impossible to exist in that age in a wilderness, as that spot then was.
The main hall breathes a luxury that seems impossible in so remote a wilderness for that age.
Crossing the threshold, the register shifts from wild nature to European refinement — a luxury the narrator flags as almost anachronistic in the 1604 backlands. Alencar is preparing the contrast that runs through the book: the transplanted Portuguese fidalgo and his ordered interior, set down in a country that has not yet been tamed.
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