"Oh, who might have power To utter, the dreams that man dreams!" "But I am a/-eared, that I may -eel" "The greatest shame O" " Them not believing me." "Idle Feels The evils o" " The world" "And particularly Those o" " Portugal" "The Pig, it is very sure, Will -lee unto the desert" "The Lion, and its roar" "Shows he bears a wound From that King Concealed." "WHO ARE YOU?" "An adaptation o" " Frei Luis de Sousa A play in three acts by Almeida Garret" "Preceded by Sebastianist Dreams and Nightmares by Maria de Noronha" "Photography" "Sound" "Music" "Wardrobe and assistant director" "Production Director" "Produced with the -inancial support o" "Produced and Directed By" "I, Sebastian," "King o" " Portugal, was born on the 20th o" " January 1554 on the -east day o" " The saint whose name I bear." ""Presage I -ear, the clear hope..."" "Prince John, my -ather, never met me." "He died o- "hebetated passion" 19 days be-ore I was born, at the age o- 16 years and almost seven months." "And be-ore him, and at a very young age, had died all o" " His eight brothers, children o" " My grand-ather," "King Dom John III, the Pious." "When I was born the Portuguese lived in indolence, with luxury and wretchedly." "Weakened by the bloodsucking India, dazed by the miracles o" " The Discoveries, corrupted by pest, by drugs and sicknesses that came -rom the Orient, they had lost all notion o" " Reality." "Sickness had entered into their -aith, ecstasy generated cruelty, and the greatest per-idies were virtues." ""Sancta Santis"." "And Castile was eyeing the Kingdom." "Then, when I was born, the people cried out hosannas, and called me "the Desired one"." "And you, oh well/born security O" " Lusitania, old -reedom," "And no less certain hope O" " Increase in the small Christianity," "You, the new -ear o" " The Moorish lance, Fatal marvel o" " Our time..." "Fatal marvel o" " Our time Given to the world by God" "(may you rule everything to give most o" " The world to God)." "My mother, Dona Joanna o" " Austria, never -elt happy in Portugal." "She was haughty and distant, and received hatred -rom the Portuguese." "She abandoned me be-ore I was -our months old." "I was entrusted to my grandparents, Dona Catarina and Dom John III." "She -led into the arms o" " Her brother, my uncle, Philip, son o" " The Emperor Charles V and -uture king o" " Castile," " Or whom she held an incestuous passion." "My grand-ather the king was tough, correct and simple; a mediocre being." "They told me that at the age o" " Twelve he had been given a convent as a toy." "Altars, images. - riars and prayers were his childhood games." "Piousness enslaved his spirit." "A veritable crowned religious leader." "He brought the Jesuits -rom Spain," " Ear-ul inspectors o" " Intellectual activity." "And with the rivers o" " Money he sent to the Pope, e -inally managed to establish the Inquisition in Portugal, in 1597." "The "dogs o" " God" came to light the -ire in which the Jew burnt." "Autos de Fe were his -avorite pastime and the whole court" " Ollowed his example." "People became sleepwalkers and blind due to the religious habits." "The word o" " God drove men insane and made them monsters." "Around midnight on Friday the 11th o" " July 1557, struck down by apoplexy, my grand-ather Dom John III died." "I was three years old." "In the struggle -or the regency o" " The Portuguese court, the Queen, my grandmother, Dona Catarina, de-eated the king's brother," "Cardinal Inquisitor Dom Henry." "Withdrawn -rom the world in the Convent o" " Yuste, but not -rom political intrigue, he was preparing the throne o" " Portugal -or Prince Charles, the son o" " Philip II," "King o" " Spain and my uncle." ""Mientras que el Senor le diese vida tiene poco que temer"" "and that "avisase de Io que parecia que se debia hacer porque Io que en ello mandase se obedeceria por ella"." "Cardinal Dom Henry plotted so much that my upbringing was granted to him," " Ollowed by power, when he -orced my grandmother to give him regency over the Courts o" " The 12th o" " December 1562." "May Our Lord the King, when he turns nine years old, withdraw -rom among women and give himsel" " To men." "May the King dress as a Portuguese, eat as a Portuguese, ride as a Portuguese, speak as a Portuguese," "may all his acts be Portuguese and may he do this so that he may have great love" " Or the realm and all things o" " It." "And when the learning was complete" "I handed over Power to the little King." "On the 20 th o" " January 1568, on the very day he turned -ourteen." "Thus had ruled the courts o- 1562," "and thus I had sworn:" "And with no conditions, and I will always serve and obey this gentleman," "as his good and loyal servant." "I was a boy who was shorter rather than taller, red/haired, with blue eyes, with my white complexion slightly tinted with pockmarks, and the thick lower lips o" " The Hapsburgs, whose blood I had -rom my mother." "I was restless, anxious, sick and unbalanced." "The whole o" " My right side was larger than my left." "My hand, my arm, my side and my leg." "And my -oot had one toe too many." "My legs were too long" " Or the size o" " My body." "I had a great horror o" " Women, and there were so many stories about me that the least hurt-ul was to say that chastity came easy to me." "Mad, unbalanced, an abnormal being." "But at the same time, I was the symbolic representative o" " The aspirations o" " A people against the covetousness o" " Castile and against the onslaughts o" " The in-idels." "The ardent Muslim -anaticism on the doorstep, the bitter Calvinist and Lutheran winds blowing down -rom the north." "Genius is resolute without prudence." "My walk is a gallop." "I do not tread the earth;" "I -ly." "I have in-inite hunger and in-inite thirst -or a greater li-e." "I serve God." "I have a mission." "A posthumous son o" " The Middle Ages, supinely -oolish." "A romantic piece o" " Donkey." "Because I am chaste and ardent, I have suffered" " Rom spermatorrhea, since I was 11 years old, and because I am a diabetic I turned a common urethritis into something chronic." "They gave me cinnamon tea and very hot -ood to relieve the pain." "A great miracle, or a great catastrophe, something extravagant and never be-ore seen, that is my only desire, my only ambition." "To lay the whole o" " Barbary subject to me, to lay waste the walls o- Constantinople, to be Caliph o" " Egypt, to bring the venerable Palestine to heel." "And I took a vow o" " Chastity to make this undertaking while still pure." "To take Portugal into A-rica." "To impose -aith upon the Moorish in-idel by arms, to stop the Turkish advance and to bring bread and the cow to this nation ruined by pest and by the rotten corpse o" " The overseas empire." "I called all the right/seeing counselors cowards;" "I managed to get a Papal Bull" "And -rom my uncle Philip o" " Spain:" "money, men and arms." "He gave me almost nothing:" ""The color o- -ear, the color o" " Prudence, the color o" " Ambition!"" "Then I invented money and I invented soldiers." "I obtained loans by will or by -orce." "I granted tributes, I withdrew deposits -rom the alms o" " Orphans, o" " The deceased and the absent, and -or 250 thousand cruzados I exempted the new Christians" " Rom con-iscation -or ten years," "I took one third o" " The ecclesiastical rents -rom the clergy" "I made salt and bread monopolies," "I brought -orward rents o" " State, I sold positions," "I enthusiastically practiced a "disused -leecing"." "I ordered recruitments and pressings." "Single men or married, boys and old men, everything would do." "But my mandatories knew no scruples only those who had no money to pay them were not enlisted." "Women would sell their skirts and their honor -or two cruzados to save their sons and husbands:" "An army o" " Only nine thousand men, wretched souls, beggars and lost men the dregs o" " The nation." "And children, many children." "Young noblemen o- 12, 10 and 9, because many o" " The nobles, due to cowardice or laziness, thought it better to remain in the kingdom and send their sons on the -estive adventure." "I bought three thousand mercenaries" " Rom Germany, as many more -rom Castile, and hal" " As many -rom Italy." "The army was as wretched as it was stately and it camped -or months on end in Lisbon, in tents o" " The -inest silk." "Lisbon sang, laughed and danced, preparing itsel" " Or the A-rican adventure." "Orgies, drunkenness. - ights, oaths and dishonesties." "Women roamed the streets, in bands, provocatively dressed:" "buckles and rosettes on their hats, beads, crescents, necklaces and charms o" " Gold, studded with diamonds -rom Rekkan, sapphires -rom Pegre, pearls" " Rom Borneo, cameos -rom Germany, sables and minks -rom Moscow, silks -rom Persia and Italy." "And the noblemen, even more ruined than they were, in gala dress, with velvet, satin or damask doublets, adorned with braids and lace and trimmings o" " Gold." "Their weapons were works o" " Art:" "inlaid bucklers, daggers with enameled handles, precious two/handed swords and sabers, they strutted around in per-umes, showing their coats o" " Arms on their steel breastplates, lifting their capes with the broad o" " Their swords, resting one hand on their cups while the other, at ease, held their plumed hats, when, in amorous bows, they spoke." ""Saint Anton, bless them!"" "cried the towns-olk when -inally, on the 25 th o" " June, my armada raised the sails." "At sea the party continued, taking re-reshment in Cadiz, where we spent six days watching bulls." "Reaching A-rica, the experienced and wise captains warned me not to leave the coastline and to take support -rom the armada." "I insulted them and opposed such cowardice." "To enter Morocco, de-eat the enemy in his house and, in a sudden rush, to go to Fez and crown mysel" " Emperor." "The King!" "To die, yes, but slowly." "Is there no other way?" "Heaven!" "On the 4 th o" " August 1578, under the midday sun on the -ield o" " Alcacer Quibir," "I ordered no one to attack unless the King gave the command." "But in one o" " Those intellectual eclipses, proper to epileptics, an absence, an obnubilation, a dim spell, I -orgot to do so," "A troupe o" " A-ricans, rolling like a breaking wave, engul-ed everything and smashed everyone." "The rout was complete." "Eight thousand Christians were killed in the slaughter;" "that which remained o" " Men in Portugal was lost in A-rica." "The battle in which three kings died lasted a little more than an hour, but no one, no one at all, saw me -all or die:" "I became obscurely lost." "I lived" " Or centuries in the Portuguese soul." ""Un bel morir, tutta la vita onora"." "They stripped the dead bare, they killed the wounded who were incurable, and thus unable to be ransomed." "They made captives o" " All the others, whether maimed or whole, and thus they were led in chains like cattle to the market." "A kingdom annihilated through shock and suffering, ruined by warlike adventure, was left skinned by the price o" " The ransoms." "As a -atal consequence o" " This de-eat," "Portugal lost its independence two years later." "And -or two years and until he died, the kingdom was in the hands o" " My grand-ather's brother, the old and senile Cardinal Dom Henry, the -ierce inquisitor, that "sack o" " Soft weakness", as the people called him." "Like a child, he continued to bend over and suck at the breasts o" " Maria Mota, who had always -ed him." "He died in a state o" " Great affliction," " Eeling the greed o" " The heirs to the throne." "One o" " Them, the boldest, Dom Anthony Prior o" " Crato, gave orders to the simple -olk and the evildoers." "Rapes, violence, treasures and church altars sacked and looted, temples pro-aned..." "Then my uncle Philip II o" " Castile decided to occupy Portugal and -ul-ill his ambition." "He sent the Portuguese man Cristopher o" " Moura, to buy the Portuguese nobility." "And he sent the Duke o" " Alba, his general, to easily rout the poor army o" " The Prior o" " Crato" "In the Courts o" " Tomar in 1581, he crowned himsel" "Philip II o" " Spain, I o" " Portugal and stated about his new kingdom:" ""Yo Io herede, yo Io compre yo Io conquiste, para quitar dudas"." "I, Sebastian, once the Desired king, the wretched Prince." "So little time on the earth and so much to carry out." "When the Portuguese soul broke out in a sob o" " Agony, the legend o" " My return -ounded the root o" " The mystical Portuguese edi-ice." "And on a misty morning I shall return, the Portuguese Christ." "King Redeemer o" " The mud, to save the nation, to de-eat the Castilian enemy and extend the Empire to boundless lands." "I, the Concealed king." "All his body on the left side, shorter than on the right." "A very short body" " Rom the shoulders to the waist and very long -rom the waist to the knees." "On the little toe o" " His right -oot a verruca that grows like a sixth toe." "On one shoulder, a wart the size o" " A coin." "He has one tooth missing on his right jaw." "He suffers -rom the" "Iow o" " Semen." "He has -reckles on his -ace and hands, and an Austrian lip." "He also has a secret wart, which will be revealed when it is necessary." "A mark the size o" " A musket shot on his left arm." "Another -rom a wound on his head." "Another over his right eyebrow..." "On the other side o" " The river Tagos Opposite Lisbon" "Almada, July 28Th 1599" ""In that joy-ul and blind mistake o" " The soul" "That -ate does not let last -or long..."" "A mistake o" " Even a brie" " Instant should be supreme -elicity in this world." "And what does it matter that -ortune does not let it last -or long?" "One lived; one can die." "Oh!" "That he should at least not know it, not suspect the state in which I live..." " Ear and continual terrors have not let me enjoy one single moment o" " All the immense happiness that his love gives me." "Love, happiness..." "Oh!" "How wretched I am!" " Telmo!" " Are you reading, my lady?" "No." "There is little daylight." "It is a pretty book, by your -avorite, our book, Telmo." "A book -or ladies and -or gentlemen: -or everyone." "There is no other." "With due respect -or that o" " The word o" " God!" "That..." "I don't know Latin like Manuel de Sousa Coutinho like his -ather be-ore him, a great man!" "Many letters, much gallant practice." "People like him exist no more..." "The word o" " God thus expressed in another language, that nobody understands..." "The English merchant in the Rua Nova has told me things that seem -itting to me..." "And, God" " Orgive me, I believe the man is a heretic, o" " The new -aith o" " Germany or England." "Telmo, ever since the time that was a long time ago, a different time." "I was a child, a little bigger than Maria." "Lady Dona Maria, she is taller now." "She has grown so much, and so quickly, these last two months..." "Thirteen years old, she is almost a lady... poor girl." "Daughter o" " My soul!" "Telmo, I don't know how to give you advice." "I was a child when I met you, when I got married... the -irst time." "Madam, do not remind me o" " Everything I used to be." "Are you not the same today, or even more so?" "Is there less trust, respect, love and caring than that to which was accustomed the -aith-ul squire o" " My lord" "Dom John o" " Portugal, may God grant glory to his soul?" "Does he grant it?" "No, madam, surely not." " Well?" " Nothing." "Maria does not hear, does not believe, and does not know anything except what you tell her." "You are her mistress, her chambermaid... / Do not speak with her o" " Such things." " O" " What the Englishman told me, o" " What they have in their language about the Sacred Scriptures?" "And o" " So many other high matters, not o" " Her time and not o" " Her sex;" "that child always wants to know, is always questioning." "She is my only daughter and she is not a very strong child." "She will become stronger." "Having her here, away -rom the sick airs o" " Lisbon." "Daughter o" " My heart!" "And o" " Mine." "At the beginning she was a child that I could not... " " it is true, I couldn't stand seeing her... seeing her was like seeing..." "God -orgive me!" "..." "But she began to grow, to look at me with those eyes... to be gentle to me, an angel o" " Beauty and kindness." "I love her more than her -ather... more than her mother!" " Telmo!" " One thing I am sure that we will see is who in this house loves our little girl more." "Your omens and prophecies... / Let us leave off -rom -utures..." " That are not good." " And pasts as well..." " Those also." " Maria possesses an understanding..." " She understands everything!" " More than is wise." " Sometimes." " She must be moderated." " That is what I do." " Don't tell her..." " I don't tell her anything that cannot and should not be known by an honest damsel worthy o" " Better..." "Better what?" "Being born in a better state." "You wanted to hear it..." "It is said." "Oh, Telmo!" "God -orgive you" " Or the evil you do to me." "Lady Madalena, my mistress, my lady..." "Order me to cut out this bitch o" " A tongue that cannot be tamed." "Oh!" "Madam, madam!" "She is your daughter, she is the daughter o" " Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, a noble o" " Such excellence and good lineage as any who take themselves -or better in this realm, in the whole o" " Spain." "My Lady Maria is o" " The blood o" " Vilhenas and Sousas, she needs no more, no more..." "Shut up, shut up," " Or Jesus Christ's sake." "My Lady!" "Stand up, Telmo." "It will be the last time." "You were the squire and -riend o" " My master, Dom John o" " Portugal, companion in work and in glory to his illustrious -ather, the noble count o" " Vimioso." "I came into this most respected" " Amily afterwards;" "I -ound you part o" " It, I took you in the same -riendship as the others..." "I saw and admired what you know o" " Li-e and o" " The world, what your heart saw (... )" "I mysel" " Entrusted you with such authority in this house, over mysel... that others might -ind strange... / Emend it, madam." " I neither need nor want to." "After the calamitous A-rican adventure that left me a widow, orphan, without anyone... at the age o" " Seventeen!" "in you, Telmo, in you only I -ound kindness and protection." "You took the place o" " My -ather." "And I (save in one thing) have obeyed you as a daughter." "Oh, madam, madam!" "That issue on which you strayed" " Rom my advice..." "There was a greater power than my strength..." "Dom John remained in that battle with his -ather, with the -inest" "lower o" " Our people." "I mourned his loss;" "I respected his memory. - or seven years." "Unbelieving," "I sent you to search throughout those Barbary coasts, through all the prisons o" " Fez and Morocco." "Huge quantities o" " Wealth and credits were spent;" "the ambassadors o" " Portugal and Castile, the priests o" " Redemption, religious people and merchants, all were entreated to bring back the slightest indication that might deny the terrible news o" " The battle o" " Alcacer." "Everything was in vain; and no one else held a remnant o" " Doubt..." "Except -or me." "The doubt o" " A -aith-ul servant." "You say it with your heart, but it torments mine." "And without -oundation." "To what holds this your belie- o" " Seven years and now -ourteen more ...twenty/one years?" " To words, to the -ormal words in that letter, written on the very dawn o" " The day o" " The battle, and given to Friar Jorge, who brought it to you." ""Alive or dead..."" "I have not -orgotten one letter o" " Those words;" "I know what man my master was to have written them in vain:" ""Alive or dead, Madalena," "I shall see you at least once more in this world."" "Alive he did not come, more to the worse!" "And dead... his soul, his -igure..." "Jesus, man!" "He hasn't appeared to you, I see." "No, heaven -orbid!" "I know he hasn't." "He would not leave without also appearing to his old squire." "My God, Telmo!" "Don't upset me any -urther." "Are you not happy in the arms o" " The man you have always loved above all others?" "My poor master..." "respect, devotion, loyalty, you had everything -or him..." "But love!" "It is not ours to give or take love." "The jealousness that my master never had, I have mysel... here is the bare naked truth." "I can't, I cannot bear..." "Manuel de Sousa Coutinho is an honored gentleman, a good Portuguese..." "but he is not, and never will be, that mirror o" " Chivalry and goodness that was my noble master." "Ah, my blessed master!" "I decided to marry Manuel de Sousa with the consent o" " The -amily o" " My -irst husband." "We have lived sa-ely, in peace..." " Or -ourteen years." "God has blessed us in the beauty, in the admirable gifts o" " This angel..." "And you, you, my Telmo, who are so hers, you intend to have more love -or her than our very selves." "No, no I do not!" "You do!" "And it is you who are raising this ghost, the shadow o" " Whom would be enough to condemn mother and daughter to eternal dishonor!" "Have you thought about the harm you are doing?" "Your mysterious words, your -requent allusions to this wretched king, Dom Sebastian," " Or whom his wretched people still wait those continuous omens o" " An imminent disgrace upon our -amily..." "Can you not see that you are arousing the curiosity o" " This child?" "You -ind I know not what pain-ul pleasure in keeping that -atal doubt alive and suspended." "I" " Such a terror ever enters that soul, who will take it out?" "What will become o" " Her and o" " Us?" "Aren't you losing her, aren't you killing her... aren't you killing my daughter on me?" " She will not die." "Thrice no." "By the -aith o" " An honorable squire, Lady Madalena, my mouth will not open more;" "I will save my angel -rom Heaven!" "Today is the last day o" " Our lives that we talk o" " Such things." "The last." "Go and see what she is doing;" "that she is not still reading." "And then go to St. Paul's, or send someone i" " You cannot..." "To the Dominican convent?" "At once." "Tell my brother/in/law, Friar Jorge Coutinho, that I am worried about my husband's delay in Lisbon." "It's almost night." "The sea is so still..." "there is almost no wind," "a breeze that caresses..." "One cannot trust the Tagus:" "From one moment to the next a north wind rises... and here on the Cacilhas point!" "He is a good seaman... a knight o" " Malta!" "There is still plague in Lisbon, the air is not yet clean... and the public alterations, this ill will between Castilians and Portuguese!" "The unalterable character o" " Manuel de Sousa..." "I've been here -or over hal" " An hour on the terrace sitting looking at the river while Telmo is here conversing with my mother, without caring about me." "What about the book you promised me?" ""There they stand. - ace to -ace," ""The two brave -ields"" "And that o" " The hidden island where is King Sebastian, who will come one very misty day..." "As he did not die..." "My dear child, you say such things!" "You have not listened to your uncle Friar Jorge and your uncle Lopo de Sousa!" "The common people, poor things, imagine these chimeras to -ind consolation in their disgrace." "The voice o" " The people is the voice o" " God, my mother:" "they believe this so strongly that there must be something to it." "Except -or my good Telmo here, no one in this house likes to hear that our brave king, our blessed king Dom Sebastian, did not die." "My -ather, who is a good Portuguese, cannot bear these Castilians it is even said that it is what he most speaks about... on hearing doubts about the death o" " My dear king Dom Sebastian, he changes his countenance, becomes thought-ul and sullen;" "it seems like he would be outraged i" " The poor king returned." "Oh, mother, he does not support King Philip, does he?" "Always imagining things that are beyond your age!" "That is what upsets us, your -ather and I;" "I would like to see you happier and about things less..." "You see, you see?" "Even my mother doesn't like it." "Even worse, she gets upset." "She is crying..." "My dear mother!" "Go, Telmo, go;" "I do not want to talk any more, or to hear o" " That battle, nor o" " Stories, nor o" " Any o" " Those things." "She has such a -ever today, my God!" "Her hands are burning..." "Mother, I am -ine, I am well." "God willing, you will live -or many years." "Why, i" " You love me so much..." "are you always startled over me?" "We adore you so!" "It is not that, it is not that;" "I have read in your eyes..." "I read in one's eyes, I do!" "And in the stars in heaven as well, and I know things..." "What nonsense!" "A girl with your good sense, and God/-earing..." "I don't want to hear you talk like this." "Maria, come here." "Tell me about your garden." "What are these?" "Everything has withered... everything has been destroyed by the heat..." "Poppies that make one sleep." "I picked them to put under my pillow tonight;" "I want to sleep soundly," "I don't want to dream, it makes me see things... extraordinary and con-used things..." "Maria, imagining is dreaming, and you daydream, my daughter." "God put us in this world to keep vigil and to work, always with our thoughts on Him, but without us -inding strangeness in the things o" " Li-e that surround us." "You are our only daughter, all your -ather's hopes rest in you." "And I can't -ul-ill them." "But what can I do?" "You read too much, it tires you, you don't enjoy yoursel-, you are not..." "What I am... only I know that, mother..." "No, I don't know:" "I don't know anything;" "I am not what I should be..." "Why shouldn't I have a brother who is a gallant and brave lad, able to command my -ather's regiments, able to take up one o" " Those lances with which our grand-athers ran through India, carrying Turks and gentiles be-ore them!" "A beauti-ul young man who was the very portrait o" " That noble knight o" " Malta." "How handsome was my -ather!" "How good he looked in black!" "And the cross!" "Why did he leave, mother, why did he not remain in that holy religion, sailing on the high seas and putting the in-idels to -light be-ore the -lag o" " The Cross?" "My child, my child!" "It was not God's will." "How I wish that he would arrive now -rom Lisbon!" "It is so late..." "God bless this house!" "Good afternoon, uncle Jorge!" "The blessing o" " God be upon you, child." "Welcome, brother!" "I am worried..." "I have had some news -rom Lisbon." "Do not be alarmed;" "but you should be -orewarned." "The governors wish to leave the city..." "a veritable whim..." "After having -aced the -orce o" " The plague while stuck inside, now, that it is almost over, they wish to take a change o" " Air." "The poor things!" "The poor common -olk!" "What else are their lives worth?" "Plagues and disasters." "I" " I were to govern, duty to God and to the king would command me to stay until the end, where misery was at its greatest and danger most present, in order to attend the needy with medicine and shelter." "Does not 'King' mean the common -ather to everyone?" "Teodora, my damsel!" "The world is not like that;" "what can we do?" "Change it." "I am a-raid -or this child." "Me too." "This our good town o" " Almada has been chosen, due to its healthy waters, clean air and splendid view," " Or the court and the buen retiro o" " Our -ive kings, the governors o" " Portugal" " Or Philip o" " Castile, may God protect him." " Let them come." " What else can we do?" "Our poor Convent o" " St. Paul must lodge the Lord Archbishop Dom Miguel de Castro, president o" " The Government." "He is a good prelate, except that he disturbs our humble peace." "You are worse off..." "You and Manuel de Sousa, because the other -our governors wish to come to this house!" "We will close the doors to them." "My -ather's regiment has over six hundred men we will de-end ourselves." "Is this not tyranny?" "I would love to see anything like a battle!" "Silly girl!" "What harm have we done to the Count o" " Sabugal and the other governors" " Or them to show us this disrespect?" "Are there no more houses out there?" "Do they not know that there are ladies in this household, a -amily... that I am here?" "It is my -ather's voice!" "My -ather has arrived!" " I can't hear anything." " Neither can I, Maria." "It is my -ather..." "And he is angry!" "My lord has arrived;" "I saw the brig come in just now." "Thank you, Miranda." "It is extraordinary..." "She sees and hears -rom such distances..." "A terrible sign at this age and with this physical constitution!" "Miranda!" "What's the matter with you?" "You never come into the house like this." "The news would be strange were it not -or the times we live in." "We must leave this house at once, Madalena." "Very good. - ather!" "Very bad!" "There is no other way." "Telmo has gone to tell your ladies/in/waiting what they have to do." "It is eight o'clock," " Our hours to midnight;" "until then the little that I wish to save will be saved... they aren't coming until the morning." "Is it true that Luis de Moura and the other governors..." "Luis de Moura is a scoundrel:" "he does as he is." "The Archbishop is..." "what the others want him to be." "But the Count o" " Sabugal, the Count o" " Santa Cruz, who ought to consider who they are, have taken this hate-ul, vile charge..." "o" " Oppressing their kin in the name o" " A -oreign king." "Oh!" "What people, what Portuguese noblemen!" "I will give them a lesson like tyrants in this land have not seen -or a long time." "My noble -ather!" "You show them what a true Portuguese is made o-." "What will you do against these power-ul men?" "They already hate you" " Or being better than them." "What will they do i" " You give them a pretext?" "Manuel, my husband, Manuel de Sousa, upon our love..." "Your wi-e is right." "Be prudent, and think o" " Your daughter." "I think o" " Everything." "Where will we go, all o" " A sudden at this time o" " Night?" "The only place we can go:" "the house is yours, Madalena." "Which one?" "The one next to the Convent o" " St. Paul?" " Jesus help me!" " You are doing the right thing:" "the house is big and in good state o- repair, it still has almost everything." "And -or me. - or all o" " Us priests, this is a great joy!" "Almost under the same roo-." "There you have a Chapel o" " Our Lady o" " Devotion, the most devoted and most beauti-ul in the whole church... / I wish I were there." " It is time." "Listen to me, listen:" "is there no other way?" "Which way, madam?" "That house..." "I can't -ace it..." "I need to speak to you alone." " Friar Jorge, go with Maria." " Come, uncle," "I want to see i" " There's room" " Or my books and my papers..." "I'll show you them in the other house..." "But keep it secret!" "Silly girl!" "The world will -ind out that there is still a Portuguese man left in Portugal." "I have never known an occasion on which I disagreed with what you wanted;" "I am prepared to obey you always, blindly." "But, husband o" " My soul..." "not that house, don't take me to that house!" "Because it belonged to your" " Irst husband?" "I always respected Dom John o- Portugal," "I honor his memory," " Or you. - or him and -or me;" "and I am not aware o" " Ever -earing sheltering under the same roo-." "You lived there with him?" "I am not jealous o" " A past that does not belong to me." "The present is mine, all mine, dear Madalena..." "Let us speak no more o" " This:" "we must leave, and now." "You do not know... you do not know o" " The violence, the constraint o" " My soul, the terror... having to go into that house." "It is like going back into his power, and being taken out o" " Your arms oh. - orgive me. - orgive me... there I will -ind the shadow o" " Dom John, threatening me with a sword that crosses between us, between my daughter and mysel-." "I will die in that -atal house;" "I won't be there -or three days, three hours even without all the calamities o" " The world be-alling us." "Manuel, husband o" " My soul, upon our love I beg o" " You," " Or our daughter's sake..." "Let us go anywhere else, but not to that house!" "There is only one righteous -ear, Madalena, the -ear o" " God, there are no specters that might appear to us except those o" " The evil deeds we do." "What do you have on your conscience that makes you -ear them?" "For those who walk be-ore God the Earth holds no -right, nor Hell horrors that might challenge them." "We shall pray" " Or the soul o" " John o" " Portugal in the devout chapel that is a part o" " Your house;" "and do not -ear that the soul that is in Heaven will come to pursue us in this world, because he died as a martyr at the hands o" " The in-idels, in a holy battle. - ighting -or God and -or his King." "Lady Madalena de Vilhena, remember who you are and -rom whom you come, madam... and do not take away my peace o" " Mind and strength o" " Heart, because I need them whole at this time." " What are you going to do?" " I have told you:" "I am going to set an example" " Or the people that will enlighten them..." "My -ather died in -ailing disastrously upon his own sword." "May I die in the -lames set by my own hands." "Let it be understood in Portugal that a man o" " Honor and courage, no matter how power-ul the tyranny is, can always -ace up to it," "losing his love -or base and passing things." "Two sparks can destroy all these things in a moment..." "This wretched li-e can be blown out in even less time." "My God, my God!" "The portrait o" " My husband!" "Save that portrait!" "Your excellencies may come whenever you like." "Palace O" " Dom John O" " Portugal Portrait Room" "August 4th 1399" ""Child and girl they led me" " Rom my -ather's house"" "my mother says that she doesn't understand the book;" "I do." "Here there is neither child nor girl;" "my -aith-ul squire, Telmo Pais," ""do what thou art commanded"." "Do not reply, else we will argue, there will be a row and my mother will awake." "Poor thing!" "We have been here -or a week and it is the -irst good night's sleep I have had." "The palace a-lame, the people shouting, the pealing o" " The bells, so grand and sublime, a spectacle the likes o" " Which I have never seen so majestic!" "My poor mother was terri-ied, she can't take her eyes off it:" "she goes to close them and sleep and says she sees those -lames curling into smoke reaching into the air and devouring everything with the -ury o" " Hell..." "The portrait o" " My -ather, her -avorite, dressed as a Knight o" " Malta, she cannot be consoled about the -act that it wasn't saved -or her." "She, who doesn't believe in omens, now can't get it out o" " Her head that the loss o" " The portrait is the -inal -oreboding o" " Some unexpected but certain mis-ortune that will separate her -rom my -ather." "Now I have to be the strong and sensible one," "I scoff at omens and signs to sheer her up, poor thing!" "Telmo, I have never believed in them so much." "Don't say that..." "God will make everything well, they both deserve it." "Your -ather, Lady Maria, is a true Portuguese." "Now I have seen him, with that soul o" " The old Portuguese, take the torches in his hand and set -ire to his own house;" "burning and destroying so much o" " His own in one hour, a tremendous lesson" " Or these tyrants o" " Ours..." "A man!" "My li-e is his should he want it." "I am sorry, so very sorry, that I did not know him;" "that I did not always love him" " Or what he is worth." "Telmo, it is a glory to be the daughter o" " Such a -ather." " May God de-end him!" " Amen." "Are the tyrant governors still strongly against my -ather?" "Your mother's omens..." "will turn out to be -alse." "The archbishop, the Count o" " Sabugal and the others have been brought to reason by your uncle." "Miguel de Moura is still renitent;" "everything will be quiet" " Or these coming days." "It would already have been so i" " Dom Manuel had wished to say that the -ire had broken out by accident." "But it is right like this:" "it would be to -orgive the generous crime with the villainy o" " A lie." "My noble -ather!" "He can't come here except at night, and -or brie" " Moments." "And God knows how dangerous it is!" "Everyone knows he comes but they turn a blind eye to it." "Now it is just a matter o" " Maintaining appearances -or a -ew more days." "My mother's sadness, that terror in which she lives, and that she disguises with such effort in the presence o" " My -ather is a presage o" " A great mis-ortune..." "Whose portrait is this, Telmo?" "That is... it is someone in the -amily o" " The nobles o" " The house o" " Vimioso." "You are not telling the truth, Telmo." "I have never lied, Lady Maria de Noronha." "You are not telling the whole truth, Mr. Telmo Pais." "I told you what I know, and what is true:" "it is a gentleman -rom the -amily o" " My other master," " God keep his soul." " Does this gentleman have a name?" " He surely does, but I..." " Shut up." "I don't know what these mysteries are all about." "On the night we came to this house, my mother and I came into this room." "There was a torch burning, casting all its light upon this portrait..." "My mother, who was holding me by the hand, suddenly set eyes upon it and let out a cry." "Oh, my God!" "She was so taken by shock that she almost -ell upon me." "She snatches the torch and grabs me so hard... in such a hurry, running through these rooms, it seemed like something evil was coming after us." "She remained in that state." "And occasionally she says:" ""The other one, the other one..."" "She can't get that portrait and that o" " My" " Ather that got burnt out o" " Her head." "My dear and beloved King Sebastian." "What majesty!" "Sincere, loyal, true." "He took the task o" " Ruling seriously and swore to aggrandize and glorify his kingdom!" "To think that he would die at the hands o" " The Moors, in the middle o" " A desert, and that it would only take an hour to erase all o" " The re-lected boldness in those slit eyes, in the tightness o" " Those lips!" "It can't be, it can't be true." "God would not allow such a thing." "Would that God heard you, angel -rom Heaven!" "Your -riend with whom you traveled through India, in that land o" " Prodigies and bizarre things..." ""In one hand always his sword and in the other his pen..."" "My Luiz, poor man!" "He got his just reward!" "He was a younger lad than I, much younger, and when I saw him the last time, on the porch o" " St. Domingo's convent, in Lisbon, so raggedly dressed, so cowed..." "An active and gallant..." "old man, old and -eeble" "I said to mysel-:" ""Foul land will consume you soon, body o" " The greatest soul that Portugal has seen!"" "And I embraced him..." " Or the last time." "He seemed to hear what was in my thoughts." ""Goodbye, Telmo!" "May St. Telmo be with me at the end o" " This voyage, as I can now sight -riendly shores"" "and he pointed to a gravesite." "The -riars were praying the service o" " The dead in the church..." "A month later someone came here and told me:" ""Well, Luiz de Camoes has gone off to St. Anne in a sheet."" "No one else spoke o" " Him." "Don't they read the book that gives a memory to the -orgotten?" "They accepted the book like the tribute -rom a slave." "These rich people, these grandees, who oppress and despise everything except their vanities, took the book like something that a servant had made to honor them." "Once the work was -inished they let him die unprotected, without caring about it all..." "Who knows whether they even rejoiced?" "He might ask them -or alms now they wouldn't have to take the trouble to re-use." "He is in Heaven." "Heaven was made" " Or the good and -or the un-ortunate," " Or those who here on earth have divined it!" "He read in the mysteries o" " God;" "his words are those o" " A prophet." "What he says there about our King Sebastian!" "How could he then die?" "He did not die." "But the other one... who is this other one, Telmo?" "How sad he looks, what melancholy..." "Such a thick, black beard..." "and his hand resting on his sword, as i" " He has no other support, nor any other love in this world..." "He did, oh, he did!" "That was Dom John o" " Portugal, an honorable nobleman and a valiant horseman." " So my heart was right!" " What did your heart tell you, child?" "Oh. - ather, my dear -ather!" "My heart doesn't tell me anything any more." "In the daytime!" "Isn't it dangerous anymore?" "I didn't have the pacience to wait all day." "I was well hidden on the way." "There is no danger now, my lord." "This morning I went to the convent, and Friar Jorge told me that everything has been concluded." "Excellent." " And how is your mother, child?" " She has changed since yesterday... / Let us go and see her." " No." "She is still asleep." "Asleep?" "Good." "Your hands are so hot!" "And your -orehead..." "it is burning!" "It is always burning!" "For God's sake, Maria!" "I don't want you to think... / So what should I do?" " Laugh, play..." "Don't tell her any more stories, Telmo." "Poets and troubadours are all weak in the head..." "So why do you do what they do?" "You know everything!" "Maria, my Maria!" "Telmo, call my brother;" "tell him I have arrived." "Father, is the portrait a good likeness?" "It is rare to see such a per-ect likness:" "his stance, his affections, everything." "The painter -aith-ully copied everything he saw." "Only he couldn't see, nor would this -it on the canvas, the noble qualities o" " His soul, the grandeur and courage o" " His heart and the power o" " His will, which no one saw him change." "Your mother still trembles when she hears his name;" "such respect... almost a holy terror that she had -or him." "He -ell in that battle!" "Do you regret it, Maria?" "Yes." "I" " He had lived you would not exist now;" "I would not have you here in my arms." "Oh. - ather!" "My lady niece." "Brother!" "The governors have decided to let the matter drop;" "Miguel Moura has now given in." "The archbishop went to Lisbon yesterday and will be back this afternoon." "Four o" " Our religious leaders and mysel- will go to meet him and accompany him, and you have to come with us to thank him." "He had no part in the wrong they did to you." "Only i" " He comes alone, without the others..." "Alone." "The others are on the estates north o" " The Tagus." "In -act I need to go to Lisbon:" "to the Sacrament, your new convent -or nuns near to St. Vincent's;" "I have to speak to the Abbess." "Take me with you. - ather." "I want to see aunt Joana de Castro:" "it is the greatest pleasure I may have in this li-e." " That countenance..." " What about your mother?" "My mother will let me go." "She is better now... and when she sees you she will be per-ectly healthy." " And the -oul air in Lisbon?" " There is no sign o" " Plague." "But... prudence after all..." "I never catch anything." "Please. - ather, let me go..." "We shall see what your mother says and how she is." "My dear husband, I'm totally well now." "My sickness was a -ear o" " Losing you." "My dearest Madalena!" "Telmo has told me everything, and it cured me." "Maria, God thought o" " Us;" "he heard your prayers, child, because mine..." "Praised be the Lord -or everything." "And let there be joy!" "It wouldn't thank the Lord i" " Anyone were sad in this house tonight." "You won't leave me again;" "you will stay by my side?" "These -irst -ew days you must put up with me, keep me company." "I need this so much, dearest." "I will do whatever you wish, Madalena." "I am -ine..." "But I have..." "You have an imagination that tortures you." "We shall have to punish it, to give an example to a certain young lady who is listening to us." " Today is Friday..." " Friday!" "It is Friday!" "For me it has been the best/dawned day o" " The week." "It is the day o" " The passion o" " Christ, Madalena." "In one... in two weeks, I won't leave the house." "Are you happy?" "My spouse, my husband!" "What about you, Maria?" "I'm not happy. - ather." "Do you want to know why she has this long -ace?" " Today I need to go to Lisbon." " To Lisbon..." "Today?" "I can't get out o" " It." "I am indebted who knows whether" " Or my li-e itsel-?" "Miguel de Moura and those degenerate relatives o" " Mine were capable o" " Anything!" "I am greatly indebted to the archbishop." "But today!" "Today is the worst day..." "When will you be back?" "Don't leave me alone here even one more night..." "Tonight..." "I'll be back by night-all." "And I will never leave your side again." "Am I going. - ather?" "Can I go, mother, please?" "Where are you going, child?" "What are you talking about?" "With -ather, to the Sacrament." "You know, my dear mother, that -or a long time" "I have been wanting to go to that convent, to meet aunt Joana." "Sister Joana." "Haven't you been promising me," " Or over a year... dear mother?" "Oh, Maria, Maria..." "You're also abandoning me today!" "Don't worry about me:" "my -ather is going, uncle is going, and I am taking my lady/in/waiting, Doroteia..." "And my -aith-ul squire, Telmo, will also be going." "And what about your mother, child?" "Will you leave her alone and dying o" " Sadness and -ear?" "Your mother is right." "I don't want to see anyone sad in this house today." "Come here my suffering child, and be gentle to your uncle -riar." "I will stay and keep your mother company." "Go and see that holy nun..." "Your heart can be no better, but I want you to keep a cool head: do you hear?" "Cool!" "Only when it is empty!" "May I go and get ready, mother?" " I" " Your -ather so wishes..." " Yes, you may." "Go." "That blood is on -ire." "I" " It is not allowed to burn -reely it will burn and consume itsel-." "Telmo can go with her;" "I don't want him here." "Why?" "Maria is not hersel" " Without him." "Maria is his second li-e... / and he gives me superstitious -ears..." " Let him go." "I've never seen you like this." "I'm so a-raid, this horror o" " Being alone in the world." "Madalena!" "Let us not talk more." "Go." "Goodbye!" "Oh, my dear wi-e, it is as i" " I were embarking on a galleon to India..." "I'll be back be-ore night-all." "And, Jesus!" "Look at the Countess o" " Vimioso, that Joana de Castro, who our Maria so wishes to meet..." "I" " She broke out into these cries when she said her last goodbye to her husband..." "God gave her great strength and virtue." "But I do not envy her in this;" "I am not able to achieve such per-ection." " "Leave everything and -ollow me." / Both alive... without offense to each other, esteeming one another... and being separated to go to the grave!" "Seeing each other in their death shrouds and... alive, healthy... after so many years o" " Love... being condemned to die" " Ar apart -rom each other, alone, alone!" "And who knows whether at that" " Right-ul hour... sorry!" "No." "What a horrible thing that would be!" "They have been delivered unto God..." "And what is that to do with us?" "Our situation is so different..." "He can bless us all." "Jorge, don't leave her." "I do my best to be joy-ul, I would like to see them happy... but I don't know what I can say," "the state in which I see my sister/in/law, her daughter..." "I even don't know my brother!" "This evil is spreading to me." "May God be with us!" "Do you hear, Miranda?" "Go and wait until the brig comes back, when they disembark come and tell me immediately." "There is no wind and it is a beauti-ul day." "But the return... who knows?" "The weather changes so quickly..." "There is no danger today." "Today... today!" "Today is the day in my li-e that I have most -eared..." "It is a -atal day -or me:" "it is the anniversary..." "o" " When I married -or the -irst time, it is the anniversary o" " The loss o" " King Sebastian, it is the anniversary o" " When I saw Manuel de Sousa -or the -irst time." "Do you include that among the unhappy moments in your li-e?" "This love, sancti-ied and blessed in Heaven, because Manuel de Sousa is my husband, began with a crime." "I loved him -rom the -irst time I saw him... when I saw him on that day like today!" "Dom John de Portugal was still alive." "Sin was in my heart;" "my mouth did not say it..." "I don't know what my eyes did, but within my soul I already had a different image... that o" " A lover..." "I only kept -or my husband..." "the crude -idelity that a highborn woman owes rather to hersel" " Than to her spouse." "In the -atal battle o" " Alcacer, among so many -allen, God allowed... who knows whether to tempt me..." "Dom John to -all also." "My lady, my lady!" "Have they arrived already?" "It can't be true." "They were almost beaching just now." "Didn't I tell you to come be-ore you saw them arrive?" "I come to bring you a message..." "a strange message upon my -aith." "A poor old pilgrim, one o" " Those wanderers that are always passing through here, coming -rom Spain." "A captive... a ransomed prisoner?" "No, madam, he does not wear the cross." "Give him whatever he needs." "He says he has come" " Rom the Holy Land..." "And why won't he come here?" "Is he old?" "Very old, and he has such a beard!" "He says he has come -rom Palestine and that he brings you a message... / For me?" " He insists on seeing you." "Friar Jorge, go and see the poor old man." "It's no use, my lady:" "you must hear his message." "Some relic -rom the Holy Places in return -or a large gift o" " Alms." "That is what it will be, as usual." "Bring him here to me." "Be care-ul with these pilgrims!" "The shell on their hats and the staff in their hands are often no more than tricks to attract the charity o" " The -aith-ul." "And in these tempestuous times..." "Come in, brother, come in." "Lady Dona Madalena de Vilhena." "Is this the noblewoman to whom you wish to speak?" "The same." "Are you Portuguese?" "Like the best o" " Them, I hope to God." "Where have you come -rom?" "From the Holy Sepulcher o" " Jesus Christ." "And you have visited the Holy Places?" "I didn't visit them." "I lived there -or twenty years." "You have led a holy li-e, my good pilgrim." "I wish I had!" "I suffered -rom hunger, and I do not bear this easily;" "I was treated badly, and I did not always accept this treatment with my thoughts on" "He who had suffered there so much -or me..." "I wished to pray and meditate upon the mysteries o" " The Holy Passion... and mundane passions and the memories o" " Those who called themselves my own in -lesh stilled my heart and mind, not letting me give them to God, not even in that land, which is all His." "Oh!" "I did not deserve to be where I have been." "I was unable to die there." "God wished to bring you back to the land o" " Your -athers, and when it is his will you will die at peace in the arms o" " Your children." " I have no children, priest." " In the company o" " Your -amily..." "My -amily..." "I have no -amily anymore." "There are always relatives. - riends..." "The closest one, the ones I would like to -ind... counted on my death, and have become happy because o" " It;" "they would swear that they do not know me." "Are there such bad..." "such evil people?" "God will -orgive them -or it, i" " He can!" "Do not make rash judgments, good pilgrim." "I do not." "I know more than I would like about my relatives." "I have one -riend, and I can count on him." "Then you are not so un-ortunate." "You may count on me, kind old man, and on my husband..." "Have I asked you -or anything, madam?" "Forgive me i" " I have offended you." "There is no true offence except those one makes against God." "Ask -orgiveness -rom Him, and he will not re-use it to you." "No, my brother." "He will not." "He will have pity on me." "That he will?" "You said you had a message" " Or this lady:" "give it to her, as you will need to take your rest." "Am I abusing o" " The patience with which you have been listening to me?" "Perhaps I have -orgotten the message that I brought..." "I am so old and so changed -rom what I was!" "It does not matter, I will hear your message whenever you like... later, tomorrow..." "It must be today." "For three days I have not slept nor rested, nor set down my head, not stilled my -eet day and night, in order to arrive here today, to give you my message... and then to die," "because I swore... a year ago to the day... when I was set -ree," "I took an oath on the holy stone o" " The Sepulcher o" " Christ..." "You were a captive in Jerusalem?" "Did I not say I that I lived there" " Or twenty years?" "I took an oath that be-ore a year was passed I would be in your presence and I would tell you" " Rom the person who sent me..." "Who sent you?" "An honorable man... to whom I owe my -reedom..." "to no one else." "I swore I would carry out his wishes, and I came here." "What is his name?" "He never told anyone in captivity his name, or the name o" " His -amily." "I carry his words written on my heart with the tears o" " Blood I saw him shed, and which many times" " Ell into these hands." "No one consoled him except mysel...and God!" " See i" " I would ever -orget this." " Stop, man!" "He also suffered a great deal." "Here are his words:" ""Go to Dona Madalena de Vilhena and tell her that a man who loved her greatly..." "is alive here... through his own -ault... and that he cannot leave here without sending her news o" " Him, o" " When twenty years ago he was brought here in captivity."" "God have mercy upon me!" "That man, that man..." "Jesus!" "That man was..." "Where did they bring him -rom?" "A-rica?" "Indeed." " A captive?" " Yes." "A Portuguese man?" "Taken captive in the battle..." "O" " Alcacer Quibir." "My God, my God!" "Why does the ground not open up beneath my -eet?" "Why do these walls not -all and entomb me on the spot?" "Dona Madalena!" "The mercy o" " God is in-inite." "I doubt," "I do not believe..." "Oh, divine inspiration..." "You know this man well, do you not?" "As well as I know mysel-." "I" " You saw him... even wearing different clothes... younger, in a painting, would you recognize him?" "As i" " I were looking at mysel- in a mirror." "Look at these portraits." "That is he." "Pilgrim, pilgrim, who are you?" "No one." "My daughter, my daughter!" "Cellar in the Palace O" " Dom John O" " Portugal" "Early Morning, August 5 th 1599" "My daughter, my daughter!" "My poor daughter... an orphan with neither -ather nor mother... nor -amily, nor name, you lost everything today..." "It is the terrible punishment" " Or my mistake..." "I know it wasn't a crime." "And God knows this, Jorge, yet he has punished me in this way, my brother!" "What did I do to deserve to become the unhappiest man on earth?" "Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, the son o" " Lopo de Sousa Coutinho, the son o" " Our -ather, Jorge!" "The unhappiest man on earth..." "Have you -orgotten that he is alive?" "Indeed it is true." "No, no it isn't really:" "he has suffered more and he has suffered longer." "It was I." "I prepared his chalice o" " Human bitterness," "I gave it to him to drink, in his hands... the innocent hands..." "o" " That un-ortunate man that I dragged down in my -all whose -ace I covered..." "his pure -ace that had not blushed with another color than that o" " Virtue and coyness..." "I covered it with an in-amy that not even death will remove, because it will be perpetually and -orever cast on his tomb, covering his memory with shadows... with stains that cannot be washed out!" "I was the author o" " My own disgrace and o" " Their dishonor..." "I know this, I -eel it;" "am I not there-ore unhappier than anyone else?" ""Dishonor";" "think about the word and about yoursel-." "Consider whether you can trade wretchedness with that man whom God did not wish to aid through death be-ore he knew this greater agony." " He does not have..." " A daughter like me, the poor thing..." "A beauti-ul, pure, adored daughter on whose head" "Oh!" "Why not mine?" "all this dishonor will -all, all the injustice o" " The world, everything on the pure, white brow o" " An angel, who possesses no other blame than that o" " The origin which I gave her." "Do not blind yoursel" " With the pain;" "do not make yoursel- more miserable than you are." "God will take all this bitterness into account." "That which you suffer will be discounted in her;" "the blame will be -orgiven." "Forgiveness!" "Yes, in Heaven, I trust in that..." "But what about the world?" "Forget the world and its vanities!" "I have -orgotten them all." "But this heart is made o- -lesh." "God, God will be the -ather o" " Your daughter." "Maria... the daughter o" " My love, the daughter o" " My sin, i" " God wishes it to be a sin, does not live, cannot withstand, and will not survive this affront." "She's not so bad;" "I went to see her today..." "Tell me about it;" "I don't have..." "I haven't had the courage to go to see her yet." "She was breathing better in her sleep." "Doroteia and Telmo the poor old man!" "were with her, either side o" " Her... / They told me that she had stopped..." " Vomiting blood?" "It was the blood o" " Her heart!" "She has no other." "What other blood could there be in that -ragile body?" "Yesterday, when I took her" " Rom her mother's arms, did she not spew it all out here on my chest?" "Do I not bear here... the blood..." "the blood o" " My victim?" "The blood o" " My soul, the blood o" " My beloved daughter!" "I want to wish -or you to take her now and I don't have the courage to do so." "I should accept your mercy in calling that angel to join your own, be-ore this vile world spits the shame o" " Her birth in her -ace." "I should do, I should do..." "and I cannot," "I don't want to, I don't know how to," "I don't have the courage, I don't have the heart." "I ask -or li-e, my God!" "I ask -or li-e, li-e, li-e..." " Or my daughter!" "May I die o" " Shame, i" " It is necessary, cover me with the scorn o" " The world;" "write an epitaph on my headstone that shouts out o" " Dishonor and in-amy upon me!" " Oh, my God, my God!" " God knows what is good -or us." "He will do what he, in his mercy, knows to be best." "You are making me see the truth..." "right now..." "Is that what you mean?" "Speak: is she dying?" "Is she dying?" "I will have no daughter either!" "For your own sake, my brother, I have told you the truth." "Maria seemed better;" "she was sleeping... / Make God wish that she never wakes!" " God have mercy!" "I died today..." "I will put on my shroud soon." "My daughter was not o" " This world..." "she was not, Jorge;" "she was an angel who came -rom Heaven to accompany me on my age on Earth..." "The archangel o" " Disgrace has separated us, the minister o" " The wrath o" " The Lord." "She was neither o" " This world nor -or it..." "Go, Jorge, and come and tell me;" "I still cannot do so... but I will go," "I will go to see her and kiss her be-ore going down to the grave." "When you are calmer..." "we will both go." " What time is it?" " Four, hal" " Past -our." "Five o'clock, by the light o" " The dawn, as the sun is now upon the windows o" " The church." "And what about the other one..." "the other shamed woman, my brother?" "Trust in the Lord is capable o" " Great things:" "accept this." "The Lord will do the rest." "I have -aith in this scapular" " Or you and -or her." "It was a digni-ied solution, a divine inspiration that illuminated you both." "There still may be happy days" " Or those who have been able to consecrate their mis-ortunes to God." "Is everything ready?" "In these clothes o" " The living" "I cannot stand the light o" " The day that is dawning." "Friar John o" " Portugal, the prior o" " Ben-ica, and also vicar o" " The Sacrament, arrived during the night:" "he will clothe you in the habit, you and Dona... my sister." "According to your wishes, one o" " You will go to Ben-ica and the other to the Sacrament." "You are a good brother, Jorge." "God will pay you back." "And what about him?" "Where is he... what will he do?" "The pilgrim is in my cell." "He will not see anyone, nor will he be seen by anyone who should not see him." "The secret o" " His real name will remain between you and I besides the archbishop, to avoid -ormalities and delays." "There is one other person" "I promised him he would speak to today, and be-ore anything else." "Can this be true?" "Does this man have the cruelty to shatter the pieces o" " That already broken heart?" "He was always like that: cruel, and as merciless as his sword." " Does he wish to see Dona Madalena?" " No, man." "His old squire, Telmo Pais." "How could I say no to him?" "I am injust." "But I am suffering so much... my wi-e!" "With what mouth do I still utter these words!" "What does Dona Madalena know?" "She knows what the pilgrim told her in the -atal portrait room..." "She knows that Dom John is alive, but she does not know where." "She thinks he is in Palestine and that is where she should think he is." "Then she does not know the whole truth o" " Our disgrace." "Good." "Perhaps she may doubt," " Ind consolation in some hope, in her uncertainty." "Last night she began to -eel some -alse light" " Rom that vain hope in her soul." "Let God let it be so, i" " It is -or her good." "Why should he not let it be?" "Maria, poor Maria!" "I trust in the Lord that she does not know..." "No one has told her, nor will they." "She knows what she saw:" "her mother almost in the throes o" " Death." "She may only guess at the motive." " I am a-raid that she might do so..." " So am I... / God will help her." " My poor beloved daughter!" "She is awake." "How is she?" "Much better, she seems to be completely well." "She is very weak and her voice is slow, but her eyes are serene, lively as be-ore and without that sparkling she had yesterday." " She asked after both o" " You." " And about her mother?" "No, she has never spoken o" " Her again." "Oh, my daughter, my daughter!" "We were going to see her." "Do you promise me?" "I promise." "Listen, Telmo, do you remember what I told you this morning?" "O" " Course I remember." "When we go out, pull that cord leading to the bell in the sacristy:" "a lay brother will come;" "tell him your name and wait." "Then close this door -rom the inside and only open it when you hear the sound o" " My voice." "Do not worry." "The child that I brought up in these arms..." "I am going to have news o" " Him after all these years when everyone thought he was lost;" "and I, I who always hoped, always sighed -or his return..." "Now I tremble... because my love -or this other child, this last child, is greater, and has won..." "It has won..." "It has erased the other love..." "Forgive me Lord is it is a sin." "But what sin can there be in that angel?" "My God, take this old man who is no longer o" " Any use, take him -or whom you are!" "Be content with this poor sacri-ice o" " My li-e, Lord, do not take -rom my arms the innocent little one" "I have raised -or you, Lord. - or you..." "She has suffered a great deal, so many pains have crossed through that soul;" "delay that o" " Her death -or some time!" "May God be dea" " To your plea!" "That voice!" "Why should God not hear me?" "Were you not asking -or your wretched master. - or the child you raised?" "I no longer know how to ask -or the other." "And i" " I asked -or him, or -or anyone else, why should God not hear me, i" " I am asking" " Or the li-e o" " An innocent?" "Who told you he was innocent?" "That voice!" "That voice!" "Pilgrim, who are you?" "No one, Telmo;" "no one, i" " Even you do not know me!" "My master, sire... is it you?" "Dom John o" " Portugal, is it you, sire?" "No longer your child?" "Oh, my child!" "Oh yes, my child;" "this voice, this -ace..." "Not this beard, not this hair..." "Whiter than my own, sire!" "Twenty years o" " Captivity and wretchedness, o" " Longing." "For my hair, one night after the battle o" " Alcacer was enough;" "the sun o" " Palestine and the waters o" " Jordan bleached my beard." "You have been so -ar away!" "I wish I had died so -ar away!" "God did not wish it to be." "His will be done." " Is it a burden to you?" " Oh, sire!" " Is it a burden to you?" " Is your li-e a burden to me?" "My God, it seems as i" " I lied..." "Why not, i" " It is already a burden to me, such a great burden?" "Listen, my -riend... / You are my -riend?" " Am I not?" " I want to hear it -rom you..." " What do you want me to say, sire?" "Is it true that they looked" " Or me everywhere, everywhere... that she sent out messengers and money?" "As true as God is in Heaven, as true as she is the most honorable and virtuous lady in Portugal." "Enough." "Go and tell her that the pilgrim was an impostor, that he has disappeared, that all o" " This was a vile and cruel trick by the enemy... the enemies o" " The man she loves..." "Tell her to be at peace and be happy." "Goodbye, Telmo!" "Should I lie, sire?" "Should I deny you like a -ilthy villain?" "You will do so, because I order it." "Oh, sire, sire, do not tempt your servant's -aith-ulness!" "Dom John, my lord, my master, my child, you do not know..." "What?" "There is an angel here... another child o" " Mine, sire, whom I also raised..." "Whom you now love more than you love me, is that not true?" "Do not ask me that." "You as well!" "They have taken everything -rom me." "They have a child?" "They have spent a worse night than I did!" "May God take this into account and" " Orgive them, as I already did." "Telmo, go and do what I told you." "My God, my God!" " Embrace me, Telmo." " Until when, sire?" "Until the Day o" " Judgment." "Master..." "You will hear o" " Me when the time is right." "Dom John o" " Portugal died on the day his wi-e said he died." "Oh, Telmo, Telmo, how I loved her the wi-e that I can no longer love without dishonor and shame!" "Dom John o" " Portugal will not dishonor his widow." "Now, go; spoken by you it will have twice the -orce o" " Truth:" "tell her you spoke to the pilgrim, and you -orced him to admit he was a -alse impostor... say what you wish, but save her -rom shame and save my name -rom the affront." "The memory o" " It must remain spotless." "Telmo, I deliver more than my li-e into your hands." "Will you -ail me now?" "No, no sire;" "the solution is noble and worthy o" " You; will it still work?" "Why not?" "Perhaps..." "Husband, husband." "Open the door please!" "I know you are here!" "Open the door!" "By the Lord!" "Madalena is calling me..." "Calling you?" "Can't you hear someone calling "husband"?" "Husband o" " My soul," "I beg o" " You on our love," "on the memories o" " Our -ormer happiness, do not deny me this last -avor!" "What charm, what seduction!" " How can I resist her?" " My husband, my love, my Manuel!" "Ah!" "I am so blind that I took her to mean me!" "By Heaven and Hell!" "Open up this door..." "No." "Telmo, you can open it." "Telmo..." "What about him, where did he go?" "Who, my lady?" "Telmo was waiting here -or me, whith orders not to open the door to anyone." "I heard two voices talking here." "Two voices?" "Where is he, Telmo?" "Where is my husband..." "Manuel de Sousa?" "That man is here, madam;" "what do you want o" " Him?" "Oh, that air, the way that you speak!" "How do you expect me to speak to you, madam?" "Has not everything been said between us?" "Such blind -aith, such implicit belie- in the mysterious words o" " A pilgrim, a vagabond..." "A man that no one knows?" "I have something to say to you..." "I swear to you in the presence o" " God:" "our union, our love, is impossible." "It is impossible now..." "and it always should have been!" " You as well, Jorge!" " I was talking to Telmo, my sister." "Go, Telmo, you are more needed there." "Don't leave her -or one moment." "Jorge, my brother, do you not grant any importance to my doubt?" "I wish I were so happy that I could." "Madalena... madam!" "These things are now unworthy o" " Us." "Until yesterday, our excuse, to God and to men, was in good -aith." "Now nothing remains but these shrouds and the grave o" " A cloister." "Let us -ix our eyes on that cross!" "For the last time, Madalena..." " Or the -inal time in this world, my darling..." "Goodbye." "Just one, just one word, Manuel de Sousa!" "Oh God, my Lord!" "Not even one moment more, my God?" "Christ o" " My Redeemer, Oh, precious cross, re-uge o" " The un-ortunate, shelter me, as everyone else in this world has abandoned me." "Take it, Lord; take everything..." "My daughter also?" "Oh, my daughter, my daughter!" "I give you her also, my God." "What more do you want -rom me, Lord?" "It is the voice o" " The Lord calling you." "The holy ceremony is about to begin." " Has he gone?" " Yes, my sister." "Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, Brother Luis de Sousa, you have wished to strip yoursel- o" " The -ormer man, also abandoning to the world the name you had in it!" "Sister Madalena!" "Both o" " You, who were nobles o" " This world and are here lying prostrate in the dust o" " The earth, in the humble habits o" " Poor novices, have given up everything, until leaving your very selves... children o" " Jesus Christ, and now o" " Our Father St. Domingo, receive with this blessed scapular..." "My -ather, my -ather, my mother," "get up!" " Maria!" "My daughter!" " Daughter, daughter!" "Oh, my daughter." "What are you doing?" "What ceremonies are these?" "What God is that on the altar who wishes to steal the -ather and mother" " Rom the daughter?" "And you, you -atal specters?" "This is my mother, this is my -ather..." "What do I care about the other man?" "Whether he died or not, whether he is with the dead or the living, whether he remains in the grave or resuscitates right now to kill me?" "Kill me, kill me i" " You wish, but leave me this -ather, this mother, who are mine." "To come into the bosom o" " A -amily and say:" ""You are not husband and wi-e..." "and this daughter o" " Your love, this daughter raised on the lap o- so many caresses, so much tenderness, this daughter is..." ""Mother, mother, I never told you, but I knew it;" "that terrible angel who appeared to me every night to disturb my sleep had told me... the angel who descended with a -laming sword in his hand, and who thrust it between you and I, and who plucked me -rom your arms" "when I was sleeping in them... who made me cry when my -ather came to kiss me in your lap." "Mother, mother, you will not die without me..." "Father, give me your shroud..." "Give it to me, I wish to hide here be-ore he comes." "Be-ore that man -rom the other world comes and tells me to my -ace and yours:" ""That child is the child o" " Crime and sin!"" "I am not." "Say it. - ather, I am not... tell all these people, tell them I am not..." "My poor mother!" "Poor thing!" "You do not have the courage..." "Have you never lied?" "Lie now to save your daughter's honor, so that they will not take her -ather's name -rom her." "Lord have mercy!" "Don't you want to?" "Neither do you?" "You do not want to." "I will die like this... he is coming now..." "It is him, it is him!" "Now it is too late..." "Mother. - ather, cover up my -ace." "My sister, let us commit our souls to this angel that God has taken unto Himsel-." "In this world God afflicts those who love." "The crown o" " Glory is only given in Heaven." "Translation by David Prescot Subtitling by CRISTBET, Lda."