Happy in his little family
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D. Antonio tinha cumprido o seu juramento de vassallo leal; e, com a consciencia tranquila por ter feito o seu dever, com a satisfação que dá ao homem o mando absoluto, ainda mesmo em um deserto, rodeado de seus companheiros que elle considerava como amigos, vivia feliz no seio de sua pequena familia.
Dom Antônio had kept his oath as a loyal vassal; and, with a clear conscience for having done his duty, with the satisfaction that absolute command gives a man even in a desert, surrounded by companions he counted as friends, he lived happy in the bosom of his little family.
Dom Antônio had kept his oath as a loyal vassal; and, with a clear conscience for having done his duty, with the satisfaction absolute command gives a man even in a desert, surrounded by companions he counted as friends, he lived happy in the bosom of his little family.
The long portrait ends on the word happy, and the peace feels earned — a good man, his duty done, secure among his own. Alencar sets this contentment down with deliberate fullness precisely because it is a height: everything the chapter has built stands complete here, at rest, an instant before the family that is its whole meaning steps into view.
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