"DOOMED LOVE" "MEMORIES OF A FAMILY" "EPISODE 4" "My brother Simao and Teresa de Albuquerque are deeply in love, but their love is hindered by both families." "Tadeu de Albuquerque, father of Teresa, sent her daughter to a convent." "Teresa never wept, she kissed the hand of her father and embraced her cousins." "That night, while the mother superior slept, Teresa fell out of bed and wrote to Simao reporting the events of the day." "Simao, wounded by the servants of his rival, Baltasar Coutinho, took refuge in the house of a farrier friend named Joao da Cruz." "They had a daughter named Mariana." "She had 24 years, an attractive appearance and a beautiful but sad face" "When Mariana saw her father healing the wound of Simao, she fainted." "The farrier laughed loudly at the weakness of the girl" "Simao thought it was strange such sensitivity in a woman accustomed to heal the wounds that her father gained from all the fairs and festivals." "Simao received the letter from Teresa, which was delivered by a beggar, read it and became sad and thoughtful." "The farrier and Mariana suspected that he was out of money." "Simao was disturbed by these thoughts:" ""How would he pay for the hospitality of Joao and the care of Mariana?" "If Teresa fled, with what resources would he sustain both?" "Joao da Cruz followed the advice of his daughter." "He prepared the money, sold the mare and exited." "When he returned, he pretended to have received money from Simao's mother." "Simao wrote to Teresa and Mariana offered to deliver the letter to the convent." "She had a servant friend who worked there and through her, she managed to talk to Teresa and deliver the letter." "Be quick, knock from the inside, so that I can open the door." "If someone asks for you, I will say that you are on the lookout." "I have this letter for Your Excellency." " Simao!" " Yes, my lady." "I can't write, my inkwell was stolen and no one lends me theirs." "Tell him that I'm leaving tomorrow for the convent of Monchique, in Porto, and not to worry, because I'm always the same person and not to come here, because it would be useless and dangerous," "but instead to go see me in Porto, where I'll find a way to speak with him." " Will you tell him?" " Yes, my lady." "He should never come here." "It's impossible to escape, I'm always accompanied." "There will be my cousin Baltasar, my female cousins, my father and a number of servants for luggage." "Taking me away during the trip would have deadly results." "Will you tell him this?" "Girl, be careful, the prioress is looking for you" "Goodbye." "Take this as proof of my gratitude." " I can't, my lady." " Why can't you?" "Because I haven't done you any favor." "And I can only receive compensation from those who sent me." "Go with God, my lady, and may you be happy." "Mariana said to herself:" ""It wasn't enough for her to be noble and rich, she was also as beautiful as I've ever seen!"" "Simao, from the window of his room, lurked along the path." "At the sight of Mariana, fell into the yard carelessly forgetting about the wound." "The daughter of the farrier faithfully gave him the message." "Simao heard it placidly until the point when she said that Baltasar would accompany Teresa to Porto." "It's always the cousin Baltasar to dig her grave and mine!" "His!" "May he die and may 30 million devils come arrest him!" "But as long as my name is Joao, your lordship must live." "Let her go to Porto, she won't be in danger in the convent." " I must see her before she leaves." " She recommended you not to go." " Because of her cousin?" " I think so." "And maybe because it won't serve you anything." "If you want that woman, you must get her" "Father, do not put this man in trouble." "I have no doubts, girl." "It's me who doesn't want to put anyone in trouble." "As great as my misfortune is, I must fight it alone" "Mr Simao, you know nothing of the world." "Do not address these problems alone, because when they start to torture someone, they won't give them peace." "Passions..." "May the devil take them!" "Let yourself go with God or with the devil." "If she has to be yours, you'll know." "This can both go forward or backward, says an old proverb." "This is not fear, your worship." "Joao da Cruz knows how to put two men out of game and does not know what fear is." "If you want to free this person from her father, her cousin and a regiment if necessary," "I'll ride the horse and I'll be back in three hours with four men." "Father, do not give him these advices." "Shut up!" "Go prepare the mare and give her food." "You have no business here." "Don't be anxious, Mrs. Mariana." "I won't follow the advice of your father." "I gladly listen to him because I know that he wishes me the best, but I'll do what my honor and heart tell me." "I consider you lost, Teresa." "Perhaps I won't see the sun tomorrow." "Everything around me has a color of death." "It seems that the cold of my tomb is going through my blood and bones." "I can't be what you wanted me to be." "My passion does conform to doom." "You were my life and I was sure that the setbacks wouldn't keep us apart." "Merely the fear of losing you kills me." "What remains for me from the past is courage to seek a death worthy of me and you." "Maybe you can bear a slow agony," "I cannot stand it." "I could live with an unfortunate passion, but this grudge without revenge is hell." "My life won't be given cheaply." "No." "You shall be without me, Teresa, but there won't be any infamous chasing you after my death." "I am jealous of all your hours." "You will think about your husband in heaven with nostalgia and you will never take your soul's eyes away from me to see by your side the wretch who destroyed our beautiful hope." "You will see this letter when I am dead and waiting for the prayers of your tears." "With your love you have given me faith, Teresa." "I still believe that your light won't be turned off, but the divine providence has abandoned me." "Remember me." "Live to tell the world, with your loyalty to a shadow, why you dragged me into the abyss." "You will listen with glory to voice of the world, telling that you were worthy of me." "When you read this letter..." "It will be the last time that I lay the table for you in my house." "Why do you say it, Mariana?" "My heart tells me so." "Are you crying because you feel sorry for me, Mariana?" "Yes, because I believe I won't see you again, but if it happens again, I would prefer to die rather than see you." "It won't be like that, my friend." "Could your worship do something for me?" "It depends on what you ask." "Do not go out either today or tomorrow." "You ask for the impossible, Mariana." "I would kill myself if I didn't leave." "So forgive my effrontery." "May God protect you." "The girl told her father of the student's intentions." "Master Joao tried to dissuade him from leaving citing his injury as an excuse." "Then, because he could not dissuade him, decided to accompany him." "It's ready." "The rifle is charged and the mare has received a double ration." "When the student told him that he would not go to Viseu and that he would follow Teresa to Porto after the convalescence," "Joao da Cruz suddenly believed him." "But Mariana, always attentive to the prompting of her heart, doubted the change of mind and asked the father to monitor the gentleman." "I will remain here to ask Our Lady to accompany you." "Simao heard his intimate voice saying:" ""Your guardian angel speaks through that woman that has no more intelligence than that of the heart. "" "Embrace your father for me." "Goodbye and see you soon." "Until the final judgment!" "The fate must be fulfilled, if God is willing." "Simao disappeared among the shadows when Marina turned on the light of the sanctuary and prayed with the fervor of tears." "Simao examined one by one the windows of the convent." "In none saw a flash of light." "The only light was that of the lamp of Sacramento that filtered opaque and pale from an opening of the church." "No whining, uncle!" "It would be a disgrace if you were to marry." "In less than a year you will be healed." "A year in a convent is a great emetic for the heart." "It's ideal for purifying the defects of the hearts of young girls educated with discretion." "If you had educated her to be blindly obedient when she was young, she wouldn't be empowered to choose her husband." " She was an only child, Baltasar." " For that very reason." "If you had another, the loss would be less painful and less disastrous her disobedience." "You could have given everything to the most beloved daughter and disinherited the eldest with a regional permit." "So instead I see no other remedy." "Teresa." "I am here, sir." " There is still time." " Time for what?" " To be a good daughter." " I do not think I'm not." "Do you want to go home and forget the damned one that makes us all wretched?" "No, my father." "My fate is the convent." "Not even dead will I forget him." "I'll be a disobedient daughter, but never a liar." "Not even here!" " Will you talk to me, cousin Teresa?" " With you, yes." "Not even here will your odious presence leave me?" "I am one of the servants who are accompanying you." "Until a few days ago, I had two worthy to accompany you, but they were killed." " In their place, I offer myself." " I dispense your delicacy." "I cannot, due to the lack of my two faithful servants." "And it should be like that, because only cowards hide behind their servants." "The accounts were not settled yet, cousin." "Simao!" "It was imaginable that the infamous would come here." "Infamous?" "Me?" "And why?" "Infamous murderer!" "Disappear from my sight!" "This man is an idiot!" "I won't argue with your worship." "My lady, suffer with resignation like I'm doing." "Carry your cross without cursing violence and perhaps, in the middle of your ordeal, divine mercy will double your strength." " What is this scoundrel saying?" " He came here to insult you, my uncle." "He comes here and comforts your daughter with evilness!" "This is too much!" "I'll kill you here, villain." "Villain is the wretch that threatens me without coming closer." "I won't punish you in the presence of my uncle's servants that you believe are my defenders, scoundrel!" "If that is so, I hope I never encounter Your Lordship again." "You are so coward and without dignity that I would have to whip you." "Baltasar Coutinho rushed impetuously against Simao." "He tried to squeeze his throat, but quickly lost the force on his fingers." "When the ladies were able to interpose between the two," "Baltasar had his skull pierced by a bullet, wavered a second and fell lifeless to the feet of Teresa." "Hate." "Hatred, yes, against the false virtues of men that become barbarians in the name of their honor." "Eighteen years!" "Eighteen years!" "Kill him!" "Kill him!" "Run, the mare is down the street." "I won't run, save yourself." "Run, it won't take long before the soldiers arrive." "I have already said that I won't run." "You are lost!" "I already was." "Go away, my dear friend, I ask for your daughter." "You can be useful to me, run." "All doors and windows opened when the farrier fled." "One of the first to go out to the street was the bailiff" "Arrest him, he's murderer!" " Who?" " Me." "Your Lordship?" "Come, I will let you run." "No, I have been arrested." "Here are my weapons." "Tadeu de Albuquerque, when he recovered from the spasm, put his daughter in a litter and ordered two servants to accompany her to Porto." "Baltasar's sisters followed his corpse to the house of his uncle." "What's this fuss?" "D. Rita!" "D. Rita!" "What's this fuss?" " Who's shouting?" " You're screaming louder." " Who's crying?" " Your daughters." "And why?" "Talk!" "Alright." "Simao has killed a man." "In Coimbra?" "And you make all this noise because of that?" "Not in Coimbra, but here in Viseu." "Are you kidding me?" "The boy is in Coimbra and kills in Viseu?" "This is a case not covered by the laws of the Kingdom." "You seem to be joking." "Today at dawn your son killed Baltasar Coutinho, cousin of Tadeu de Albuquerque." " Was he arrested?" " He's with the bailiff." "Let me call the officer." "Do you know how and why this death occurred?" " Let me call the bailiff!" " Why don't you go to his house?" " What am I going to do there?" " To know more about your son." "I'm not a father, I'm a judge!" "It isn't up to me to question him!" "And I do not want to hear them whining!" "Tell the girls to stop or they'll be put in the garden!" "The bailiff reported everything he knew." "It was the love for the daughter of Albuquerque to cause that disaster." "The judge shall comply with the law!" "If he isn't strict, I will force him to be." "Why do you talk like this of your son?" "I am a judge and I don't protect killers motivated by jealousy for the daughter of a man I hate." "I would rather see him dead than related to that family." "I have written him many times saying that I would expel him from home." "D. Rita, due to her motherly affection and spirit of contradiction quickly protested, but had to desist when confronted with her husband's wrath." "In things of little importance, your intrusion would be tolerable, but in matters of honor, I won't tolerate it." "At this point, the provincial judge entered the waiting room." "The judge went to receive him not with the appearance of someone begging for indulgence, instead he was frowning." "It seemed he was going to criticize the judge because his visit could suggest a lack of impartiality." "My condolences for your son's misfortune." "Thank you, your worship." "I know everything." " Has the process been initiated?" " I had to accept the complaint." "If you had not done so, I would have obliged you." "The situation of Simao is serious." "Confesses that he killed the headsman of the woman he loves." "He has done very well." "I asked him if he had acted in self-defense." "He replied that in that case he would have used the boot, not the gun." "I tried to make him give answers that would show insanity, but he answered with great consistency and presence of mind which shows that this premeditated murder was executed in full consciousness." "Your worship is in a sad situation." "I wanted to help him, but I can't." "I can't and I won't!" " Is he in prison?" " Not yet, he's in my house." "Do you want me to prepare his incarceration?" "I don't order anything." "Pretend that Simao isn't my relative." "But Your Lordship is his father!" " I am a judge." " Your severity is excessive." "The law will punish him, don't do it yourself with your hatred." "I don't hate him, sir." "I don't recognize that man of whom you speak." "As a judge, do what your duties order you, the friend will thank you later for your kindness." "I've just talked to your father." "He's angrier than what I've expected." "For now, you can't count on his influence or his patronage." " What does it matter?" " It matters a lot, Mr. Botelho." "If your father wanted to, I could sweeten your sentence." "What does the sentence matter to me?" "Don't you mind being sent to the gallows?" " No, sir." " What are you saying, Mr. Simao?" "To my heart it's indifferent the fate of my head." "Your father won't garantee your basic necessities in jail." "What does that mean?" "What's the difference between starving to death and the gallows?" " Write to your mother." " What should I ask?" "To soften the anger of your father or else you will have nothing to eat." "You think I'm a wretch who cares about eating." "It's not up to you to take care of my stomach." "Of course not." "Do as you like." "He handed the culprit to the bailiff asking the guard not to call reinforcements to accompany him." "A prisoner lent you this chair." "In the birth certificate of Simao, written by the pastor of the church of Our Lady of Ajuda, shows us the following fact:" "In the second day of the month of May 1784," "Simao, in danger of life, was baptized at home." "Your mother sends it secretly." "Wretched, you're lost!" "I can't help you because your father is being relentless." "Secretly I've sent you lunch and I don't know if I can send you dinner." "What a destiny you have!" "If only you had died at birth!" "I was told that you were born dead, but your fatal destiny didn't want to abandon the victim." "Why did you leave Coimbra?" "What have you done?" "Now I know you've lived outside Coimbra for a fortnight and you never said anything to your mother." "Simao thought to himself:" ""How can we explain this?" "Didn't my mother call Joao da Cruz to send me money? "" "Lunch is getting cold, boy." "You must be without money and unfortunately I can't send you anything." "Your brother, since he escaped to Spain, absorbs all my savings." "We'll see, after a while, what I can do, but I fear that your father wants to bring us to Vila Real to abandon your process to the severity of the laws." "My poor Simao!" "Where were you hidden for fifteen days?" "I can't stand this anymore." "Your father has already beaten Ritinha because she wanted to visit you." "Count on the little value that your mother has close to an angry man like your father." "Simao Botelho reflected for a few minutes." "He convinced himself that the money received was from Joao da Cruz." "When he abandoned these thoughts, he had tears in his eyes." "Don't weep, boy." "God will do the best he can." "Dine, Mr Simao." " Take away the lunch." " You do not want to eat?" "No, and don't come back here." "I have no family, I don't want anything from the house of my father." "Tell my mother that I'm calm, well-housed, happy and proud of my fate." "Go away." "The servant said to the jailer that his hapless boss was mad." "D. Rita found the suspicion of the servant to be likely and found confirmation of the folly in the words of her son." "When the jailer came back to Simao, he entered accompanied by a country girl." "The jailer left and said to himself:" ""This one is much more beautiful than the noblewoman. "" "I don't want to see tears, Mariana." "It's me the one who should shed some tears, tears worthy of me, tears of gratitude for the favors received from you and from your father." "My mother has never sent me money." "It was from your father the money I received." " Did your father run into any danger?" " No, sir." " Is he at home?" " Yes, he seems to be furious." "He wanted to come, but I didn't let him." " Did anybody chase him?" " No, sir." "Tell him not to be alarmed and go comfort him." "I can't go back without having done what he said." "I must leave, I'll come back soon." "Buy a table, a chair, ink and paper for me." "Everything will be here soon." "My father told me not to buy anything before knowing whether your family would send you the necessary." "I have no family, Mariana." " Take the money." "Not without the permission of my father." "For these expenses you have given me too much money." "How's your wound?" "I don't even remember it." "It doesn't hurt me." " Anything about D. Teresa?" " I heard that she went to Porto." "The father has put her unconscious in the litter and there are many people at his door." "Okay, Mariana." "There's no wretch without a pair." "Go, think of your guest, be his merciful angel." "Have patience." "You won't die abandoned." "Pretend a sister appeared today." "It's not a good lunch." "Biscuits and a cinnamon liqueur, I didn't find anything else." "That same day, the judge ordered his wife and daughters to prepare themselves for leaving the day after with what could be carried on horses." "The next day, at dawn, we left for Vila Real." "Mom was always crying." "Dad, angry because of this, climbed down the litter that he shared with her, made me take his place and made the entire trip on my horse." "As soon as we arrived in Vila Real, disputes because of Simao were so frequent that my father abandoned the family and went to the estate of Montezelos." "Even my mother wanted to abandon us and go to her cousins in Lisbon in order to urge the release of our brother." "But dad astoundingly changed attitude when he discovered and threatened my mother that he would legally force her not to leave the house of her husband and daughters." "From time to time we received sad news, because, in the absence of my father, all the nobles of Viseu, as expected, conspired against my unfortunate brother." "My mother wrote to her relatives in the capital imploring a royal pardon for her son." "But all of those letters ended up in the hands of my father." "My mother one day asked permission to go to Viseu." "My father denied it and railed against her furiously." "After seven months, we came to know that Simao had been condemned to the gallows." "On the gallows erected in the place where he had committed the murder." "The windows stayed closed for eight days, we were dressed in mourning and my mother became ill." "When word came to Vila Real, all the illustrious people of the area went to Montezelos to convince my father to use his influence to save his condemned son." "Some relatives came from Lisbon to protest against such infamy that would cast shame on the family." "My father replied to all with these words:" ""The gallows was not only invented for those who do not know the name of their ancestors." "The shame of a family are the evil deeds." "Justice dishonors only the one that condemns.""