D. Cecília, the goddess of the house
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Sua filha, D. Cecilia, que tinha dezoito annos, e que era a deusa desse pequeno mundo que ella illuminava com o seu sorriso, e que alegrava com O seu genio travesso e a sua mimosa faceirice.
His daughter, D. Cecília, who was eighteen years old, and who was the goddess of that little world, which she lit with her smile and gladdened with her mischievous spirit and dainty coquetry.
His daughter, D. Cecília, eighteen years old, the goddess of that little world, which she lit with her smile and gladdened with her mischievous spirit and dainty coquetry.
Cecília arrives bathed in light — 'goddess,' 'smile,' 'she lit' — the novel's radiant center, and Alencar spends his warmest words on her. The source even slips a stray capital into 'O seu genio,' a small blemish we keep verbatim on a sentence that is otherwise pure sunlight.
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