D. Lauriana, his wife
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Sua mulher, D. Lauriana, dama paulista, imbuida de todos os prejuizos de fidalguia e de todas as abusões religiosas daquelle tempo; no mais, um bom coração, um pouco egoista, mas não tanto que não fosse capaz de um acto de dedicação.
His wife, D. Lauriana, a lady of São Paulo, steeped in all the prejudices of rank and all the religious superstitions of that age; for the rest, a good heart, a little selfish, but not so much that she was incapable of an act of devotion.
First his wife, D. Lauriana, a lady of São Paulo, steeped in all the pride of rank and religious superstition of the age; otherwise a good heart, a little selfish, but not so much as to be incapable of a devoted act.
Alencar's first portrait is briskly double-edged: proud, superstitious, faintly selfish — yet capable of self-sacrifice when it counts. He measures her with a novelist's fairness, planting in one clause the very capacity for devotion the plot will later ask her to prove.
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