"DISCLAIMER" " The actual episode starts only at 8 minutes and 44 seconds" "DOOMED LOVE" "MEMORIES OF A FAMILY" "6TH AND FINAL EPISODE." "My brother Simao and Teresa de Albuquerque love each other desperately, but their love is fought by both families." "Tadeu de Albuquerque, father of Teresa, had chosen a cousin as her husband, which my brother, provoked by his rival, killed." "My disgraced brother was condemned to be hung." "Locked in his cell, he was cited to appeal within the legal deadline." "He said he wouldn't." "He was glad of his fate... and was at peace with justice." "Asked of Mariana, daughter of blacksmith Joao da Cruz, protector of Simao." "The jailer told him he'd send for her." "Arrives Joao da Cruz crying, fearful of losing his daughter... because there was talk about killing her." "Meanwhile the feeble health of Teresa worsens quickly." "For some unintentional happenings would Teresa know..." "Simao was sentenced to the gallows." "Then asked the angel of death that he would involve her too." "We had an uncle, very old and worshipping, called Antonio da Veiga." "It was he who made the miracle and it was like this:" "He presented himself to my father and said:" ""Or you promise me here to save your son from the gallows or I'll kill myself before you."" "My father promised him he wouldn't." "Simao, just as this came about, wrote to Teresa, telling him his father would protect him and that salvation was possible." "and he'd follow the next day for the prisons of Porto, where he would await for the pardon or commutation of the sentence." "The presence of Tadeu de Albuquerque was announced at the doors of Monchique." "on the following day of past achievements." "His cousin, mother prioress, was the first to come to the parlor." "The nobleman wanted to remove his daughter from the convent, but neither Teresa wanted nor mother allowed." "Joao da Cruz finds Simao desperate in prison." "tell him Mariana is alright, she'll return to keep him company in prison." "and deliver letters to Teresa." "Joao da Cruz returns to Viseu and feels a deep longing for his daughter, not being by him." "Hello!" "Hello!" "The animal is like steel." "Not bad." "Are you Mr Joao da Cruz?" " To serve you." " I come to pay a debt." "To me?" "You owe me nothing that I know of." "It's my father that is in debt." "And who has asked me to pay it." " And who is your father?" " He was a mule tracker in Carcao... called Bento Machado." "Mariana, they killed me!" "I will never see you again!" "Sleep your eternal sleep!" "if no court will call you to account for the lives you've took... and for what you did to yours." "But if there is a place of punishment and mercy, the tears of your daughter will have been... before the Supreme Judge, your merits." "Help!" "Help!" "They killed my brother in law!" "They killed my brother in law!" "They killed my brother in law..." "Oh, Jesus!" "Mariana went to Viseu to receive the paternal inheritance." "Sold the land and left her house to her aunt who was born in it, and where her father married." "After the inheritance she returned to Porto." "and commited her capital to Simao Botelho, saying she feared being robbed in the house where she lived." "Why did you sell your lands, Mariana?" "Because I have no intention of returning." "No?" "And where will you go, I being exiled?" "Stay in Porto." " No, sir." "I won't." " So?" "I'll be in your company if you so wish." "I expected that answer." "I knew you wouldn't give me another." "But you know what's exile, my friend?" "I've heard many times what it is, Mr. Simao." "It's a land hotter than ours, but there's also bread." "You live..." "One dies burnt to the sick sun of that sky." "One dies of nostalgia of the homeland." "And many times of mistreatment in the galleys." "It shouldn't be just like that." "I've asked many times about that to the wife of a prisoner, who has served 10 years of punishment in India." "And he lived very well at Solor where he had a shop." "If it were not for the nostalgia, she said he'd never come back." "Life was better off there than here." "And suppose I die just at the arrival?" "Let's not talk about that, Mr Simao." "Let's, because I will feel the responsibility for your destiny." "And if I die?" "If you die, I'll know how to die also." "Nobody dies when they want, Mariana." "Oh!" "They do!" "And live also when they want." "Mrs. D. Teresa told me so already." "What did she say?" "That she was dying, and when your Lordship arrived in Porto, your arrival gave her life." "There are people lie that, Mr Simao." "On top of that the noblewoman is weak." "I am a woman of the fields meant for all kind of work." "and if it were necessary to injure my arm... and let the blood flow til death, I would do it..." "Listen, Mariana." "What do you expect from me?" "What should I expect?" "Why do you say that, Mr Simao?" "The sacrifices you have done and want to continue doing, can have only one reward." "Open your heart, Mariana." "What do you want me tell you?" "You know my life as I do, Mariana." "I know, but what's of it?" "You know that I'm linked to life or death to that unfortunate lady?" "So?" "Who says otherwise?" "I can only thank the matters of the heart with friendship." "And have I ever asked for more, Mr Simao?" "No, Mariana." "But you ask much of me and it makes me unhappy." "And why weep?" "That is ingratitude." "I don't deserve to be said such harsh words." "You did not understand me." "I am unhappy because I can not make you my wife." "Mariana's spirit could not rise to that speech, but her heart guessed his thoughts." "You have 26 years, Mariana." "Live!" "Your existence can't be an obscure martyr." "If I remain at home, free or imprisoned," "I would ask my sister to complete the work of your generous compassion." "But do not come with me as a result, because I know that you'll return home alone after I "close my eyes"." "I'll decide what to do when Mr. Simao leaves to exile." "Think about it right now, Mariana." "There is no need to think about it." "I already made my decision." "Tell me, what is your decision?" "When I realize I'm no longer useful," "I take away my life." "You believe I struggle to kill myself?" "Mr. Simao can live without me?" "Patience!" "I cannot." "You will go." "You will go with me, my sister." "From now on, think of our common misery." "It's a poison we'll swallow together." "From that day a secret exultation maddened at the heart of Mariana." "Let's not doubt that." "It was a heart of a woman,that of Mariana's." "She loved and was jealous of Teresa." "Yet she never hesitated in accepting from Teresa or the beggar... letters to Simao." "After seven months, the Court commuted the last offense... to 10 years of exile in India." "The father of the offender went to Lisbon... to fight against the powerful influences of Tadeu of Albuquerque." "Defeated Domingos Botelho and instigated more by himself than paternal love, obtained from the ruling prince the grace of the prisoner paying the sentence in Vila Real." "Teresa asked Simao to accept the 10 year sentence and await there for her." "10 years." "In 10 years my father will be dead and I will be your bride." "I'll ask the king for your pardon If you haven't finished fulfilling your sentence," "If you go into exile, I'll lose you forever, Simao, because you'll die or have no memory of me when you return." "As you allude yourself, poor Teresa!" "During the time that the weak forces of life center in your heart." "If for love or mercy, the offender would accept the bolts 3650 times, on his long lonely nights, even then, Teresa, you could support the stone tomb... you bend with each passing hour." "In the letter to Teresa, Simao replied:" "Do not expect anything martyr!" "I'll go." "I hate my country, hate my family." "All this soil appears to my eyes covered with pitchforks." "And how many men speak my language, I seem to whisper the curses of the Executioner." "Turn off the light of my eyes, I wish that of the sky." "I want to see the sky in my last look." "Do not ask me to accept 10 years in prison." "Save yourself if you can, Teresa." "Renounce the prestige of a poor fool." "If a dawn of peace you need, live for the happiness of that day." "Otherwise die, Teresa, because happiness is in death." "To the only words of Teresa in response to that letter, significant expression of unhappiness, several days of unease followed." "Simao Botelho did not respond to Mariana's questions." "Presumably robbed by the voluptuous anguish of his annihilation." "The creature put by God along those tumultuous 18 years cried." "But if Simao would only see Mariana's tears, would take him from lonely silence to outbursts of anguish." "I'll die Simao, I'll die." "Forgive yourself my destiny." "I have lost you." "You know what fate I would have liked to offer you." "I die, because I can't and never be able to rescue you." "If you can, live!" "I ask you not to die, Simao." "I want you alive so you cry for me." "My spirit would console you." "I'm peaceful." "I see the dawn of peace." "Goodbye, until heaven, Simao." "Six months past yet, and Teresa lived, but said to her dismayed companions, she knew for sure the day of his death." "On the 10th of this month, the offender received the order to leave on the first boat raised from the Douro for India." "At that time the ships were here to take the exiles and received in Lisbon those with similar fate." "No obstacle prevented the boarding of Mariana." "who presented herself to the the Inspector as a domestic with boarding by her master." ""And the boarding was worth it.", said the magistrate mocking." "Simao Botelho, at the request of judge Mosqueira and guidance of the order of Justice, was not tied with ropes to the arm of no companion." "The magistrate, faithful friend of D. Rita Preciosa, boarded the ship and recommended to the commander to distinguish convict Simao." "At the eve of that day Teresa had asked the sacraments, and with the consent of the choir was getting close to the maid." "At dawn Teresa read Simao's letters one by one." "Those that had been written on the banks of the Mondego warmed her heart to copious tears." "They were hymns to the awaited happiness." "Picked up loose petals, almost all came undone." "and, contemplating them, said:" "See?" "What my life is like?" "Wrapped up the letters, and threaded them with strips of silk taken from bunches of dried flowers that Simao, two years saw them being taken from his window to her house." "By charity, find the beggar, to take the bundle to Mr Joao Botelho." "Yes, girl." "So she remained, for more than half an hour before the holy image." "which she brought from Viseu." "at which which her mother and grandmother had prayed before her." "In which such a compassionate face the eyes of two ladies had turned off their last rays of light." "The judge Mourao Mosqueira... gave Simao the gold sent by his mother." "Simao accepted the money and, in the presence of Mourao Mosqueira, asked the captain to split it among the comrades in exile." "Are you mad, Mr. Simao?" "I have the madness of dignity." "For the love of my dignity, I got lost." "Now I want to see what extreme misfortunes it can lead his lovers." "Charity just doesn't humiliate me when it comes from the heart and not by duty." "I do not know the person who sent me this money." " It's your mother." " I do not have a mother." "Does your excellency want to return this rejected charity?" "No, sir." "So..." "Mr Commander, comply with what I ask... or I'll throw this in the water." " Where's Monchique?" " It's over there, Mr. Simao." "Simao got the roll of his letters to Teresa." "Noticed that the first wasn't his, but didn't open it." "The voice was heard to remove the anchor and drop moorings." "Simao leaned on the walled ship with eyes fixed on the horizon." "saw a waving handkerchief." "The ship dropped to sea moving away from the convent." "Simao distinctly saw a face and arms suspended behind iron bars." ""It is Teresa?" He asked Mariana." ""Yes, sir, it's her,"" "replied in a stifled groan the generous creature." "He felt that the soul of the condemned... would soon reach that of the one that was lost." "It was on the bar horizon and a sudden ripple of the waves... caused the suspension of the trip, announced by the captain." "Following that sailed a chick with the chief pilot." "Later the trip was postponed to the following day." "On the evening, the commander returned from the mainland and contemplated with eyes fogged by tears, the exiled... which looked at the first stars above the lookout." " You search her in the sky?" " If I search her in the sky?" "Yes..." "She must be in heaven." " Who, sir?" " Teresa." "Teresa?" " She's dead?" " Yes." "Beyond...on the lookout from which she was waving." "Courage, poor wretch, courage!" "Even men of the sea believe in God." "Expect that the heavens open for you, thanks to the prayers of that angel." "It's all finished." "Here I am." "Free for death." "Dear captain, I won't commit suicide." "You can leave me." "I ask you to retire to your room." "Your couch is next to mine." " It's an order to retire?" " For your Lordship there're no obligations." "I ask, I do not order." "I'll go and I thank the compassion." " And this unfortunate?" " Shall she follow you." "Speak, Mr. Simao." "Spill it out and weep." "I cried, sir." "I did not imagine a similar anguish." "And I have seen horrible spectacles either on ground and at sea." "When in Miragaia they compare the death of that lady," "I asked someone in the convent to take me to hear the sad tale." "A nun has told me but they were more groans than words." "I learned that, while descending the river, said out loud:" ""Simao, farewell, until eternity."" "She fell into the arms of a maid." "The maid cried and others went to the viewpoint, and took her inside, really half dead, not heard uttering anything longer." "Then I was told what she went through, love that she had for him, and thousand deaths there suffered, every time that hope would die." "That unfortunate girl!" "And what unfortunate young man you are!" "For a short time." "I believe so, for a short time." "But if friends could save you, sir, it would take us to India, more reliably than in Portugal." "I give you my word of honor... reach the viceroy in his residence in Goa." "I promise to ensure you a decent new life, with all the comforts that make life so healthy in Asia." "Don't intimidate the idea of exile, Mr. Simao." "Live, try to be yourself and you will be happy." "Your silence." "For pity, sir." "I know that it is early to plan for the future." "Sorry for the sympathy that inspires the indiscretion, but accept a friend in this turbulent time." "I agree and need him." "Mariana, come here if this nobleman permits." "This woman has been my welfare." "Because she was there I had no famine in two years and nine months in prison." "She sold everything to get me through this ordeal." "This creature came here with me." "Respect her deeply, sir, because she's so pure as the truth should be on the lips of a dying man." "If I were to die, Mr. Commander, please protect her with your kindness as if she were my sister." "If she wants to return home, protect her during the trip." " Will you promise me this, sir?" " I swear." "I am confident about your future, my friend." "I was already, Mr Simao." "At midnight, Simao stretched out his trembling arm... to the letters Teresa sent him, and contemplated for a while the one on top, that was hers." ""Oh, Simao, from such a beautiful sky we have fallen!" "It's now my spirit talking, Simao." "Your friend has died." "Your poor Teresa rests." "I should have spared you this last torture." "I shouldn't have appeared, but forgive your spouse of heaven this fault, for the consolation of talking to you at this hour, final hours of the night of my life." "In a little while, you'll travel thousands of leagues... and won't find me anywhere." "I'll wait for you in the other world, and ask for the Lord to save you." "If I could deceive you, my friend, you would think I'd rather stay alive, with the hope of seeing you return from exile?" "I want you to say:" ""She's dead and death came when I removed the last hope. "" "This is not lamenting, Simao, no!" "If I could still see you happy in that world." "Happy, you, my poor condemned!" "Without wanting to, my love, now, would hurt you." "believing itself capable of happiness." "You'll die of yearning...if the weather of exile doesn't kill you." "Life was beautiful, Simao." "If only we had it!" "I'm seeing the house that you described in front of Coimbra." "Surrounded by trees, flowers and birds." "Your imagination was walking with me on the banks of the Mondego, at the pensive time of twilight." "I was a little girl three years ago, but already felt your yearnings for glory... and believed them accomplished on my account, if you would tell me... like you told many times, you'd be nothing without the encouragement of my love." "Oh, Simao, from such a beautiful sky we've fallen!" "You entered the ship of the exiled, and I in the tomb." "What matters to die if we can never in this life have hope?" "And what would you do of life without your companion of martyrs, who blindly followed the star of your unfortunate fate?" "Goodbye." "The day arose." "I saw my last dawn." "The last of my eighteen years!" "Be blessed, Simao!" "May God protect you...and free you from a long agony." "Goodbye!" "I seem already to see you, Simao, in the light of eternity." "Farewell! "" " What's with you, Mr. Simao?" " You were here, Mariana?" " Want to go on deck, Mr. Botelho?" " We will go together." "Simao added Teresa's letter to his bundle, and exited limping." "The captain walked from bow to stern, controlling the exile." "The sailor wanted to think of consoling words but thought to himself:" ""What to say to a man who suffers so?"" "I do not commit suicide." "If your generosity, Mr. Captain, is interested in me living, you can sleep peacefully, I won't commit suicide." "But can I ask you to go down with me to the cabin?" "I will, but I'll suffer more there, sir." "Angel of compassion, always with me!" "Teresa was much more unfortunate." "You want to go down to the cabin?" "I couldn't." "Hold me, my sister." "In the morning a doctor came on board at the request of the captain." "Visiting the prisoner he said the disease was malignant, and it could be very possible he'd find his tomb on the journey to India." "Mariana heard the diagnosis and did not weep." "At eleven the ship reached the open sea." "To the anxieties of the disease were added those of nausea." "At the captain's orders Simao took medicines like mad, expelled by vomit." "On the second day of travel, Mariana said to Simao..." "When my brother dies, what should I do to those letters in the box?" "If I die at sea, Mariana, throw all my papers in the water." "All!" "Even the letters that are under my pillow." "If I die, what will you do, Mariana?" "Die, Mr. Simao." "Die?" "How many people I made miserable!" "On the fourth day a sudden torment arose." "The ship had sailed many miles and became disoriented." "On the sixth day the rudder broke in front of Gibraltar." "Following the disaster, the waves calmed down, and with the dawn of the next day, a lovely day of spring sprouted." "Mariana had aged." "It seems that you are returning from India after 10 years of work done." "Already concluded, of course." "The house in front of Coimbra... surrounded by trees, flowers and birds." "You walked with me on the banks of the Mondego, at the pensive time of dawn." "From such a wonderful sky we have fallen!" "Your friend died." "Your poor Teresa." "And what would you do in life without your partner of martyrdom?" "Give God your suffering... so I can be forgiven, Mariana." "You'll reach us, we are your brothers in heaven." "You'll be the purest of angels... being of this world, sister." "Being of this world, Mariana." "He's dead!" "It's time now to give to the tomb our adventurous friend." "Adventure it is when you come into this world with such a star." "Mrs. Mariana, go in the cabin, because the deceased must be taken away from here." "Mariana took the letters from under the pillow... and went to a box bringing Simao's papers." "Rolled them in the apron which he had containing her tears, cried on the day of his insanity, and assured the packet to the belt." "The corpse was wrapped in a blanket, and carried on deck." "Mariana followed." "Ever since I was a child I heard the sad story of my paternal uncle," "Simao Antonio Botelho." "My aunt, his sister, asked by my curiosity, was always ready to repeat the fact related to his youth." "I knew that at my sister's house there were hidden the bundles of old letters, tending to clarify the nebulous story of my uncle." "I asked those who had known him news and the slightest of details in order to enter fully into that work." "I wrote the novel in 15 days, the most tormented of my life." "So wretched memories I have of them, that I'll never open "Doomed Love."" "The End"