O Guarani 2.34 · 2.34

Para D. Antonio e para seus companheiros a quem elle havia imposto a sua fidelidade, esse torrão brasileiro, esse pedaço de sertão, não era senão um fragmento de Portugal livre, de sua patria primitiva: ahi só se reconhecia como rei ao duque de Bragança, legitimo herdeiro da corôa; e quando se corrião as cortinas do docel da sala, as armas que se vião, erão as cinco quinas portuguezas, diante das quaes todas as frontes se inclinavão.

For Dom Antônio and the companions on whom he had imposed his fidelity, this patch of Brazilian earth, this piece of backland, was nothing but a fragment of free Portugal, of his original homeland: there the only king acknowledged was the Duke of Braganza, lawful heir to the crown; and when the curtains of the hall's canopy were drawn, the arms one saw were the five Portuguese shields, before which every brow bowed.