D. Isabel, his niece
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D. Isabel, sua sobrinha, que os companheiros de D. Antonio, embora nada dissessem, tinhão suas suspeitas de que era o fructo dos amores do velho fidalgo por uma india que havião captivado em uma das suas explorações.
D. Isabel, his niece — whom Dom Antônio's companions, though they said nothing, suspected was the fruit of the old fidalgo's love for an Indian woman they had captured on one of their expeditions.
D. Isabel, his niece — whom Dom Antônio's companions, though they said nothing, suspected was the fruit of the old fidalgo's love for an Indian woman they had captured on one of their expeditions.
The fourth portrait carries the chapter's quietest bombshell: 'niece' is a courtesy, and everyone knows it — Isabel is the fidalgo's own half-Indian daughter. Alencar states the colony's central intimacy and its central silence in one breath, and the whispered scandal marks Isabel from the start as the figure who belongs fully to neither world.
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