"DOOMED LOVE" "MEMORIES OF A FAMILY" "FROM THE NOVEL BY CAMILO CASTELO BRANCO" "EPISODE 1" "Simao Antonio Botelho, who claims to be thus called and to be unmarried, a student at the University of Coimbra, born in Lisbon and working as an assistant in Viseu at the time of his arrest." "Age: eighteen." "Son of Domingos Jose Correia Botelho." "Simao Antonio Botelho, who claims to be thus called and to be unmarried, a student at the University of Coimbra, born in Lisbon and working as an assistant in Viseu at the time of his arrest." "Age: eighteen." "Eighteen years!" "The scarlet and golden splendor of the dawn of life!" "Grace of a heart that still does not dream of fruits and everything will be filled with the smell of flowers!" "Eighteen years!" "He left for India on the 17th of March 1807." "The Holy Thursday Marcos Botelho was standing in front of a lady, in love with him, and how disloyal she was." "In the same church was pointing his eyes and his heart towards the same lady also an infantry lieutenant." "Marcos restrained his jealousy, but while leaving he faced the soldier and he challenged him." "The friends of both were able to calm them down when Luis, brother of Marcos, couldn't hold his temper." "The lieutenant fell dead, but the murderer was released by the grace of the king." "Domingos Botelho, another brother of Marcos, must have had some vocation - he sure had it:" "he was an excellent flautist." "While playing he could remain two years in Coimbra, during which time his father suspended the nutritions:" "the incomes were not enough to relieve the other son from the death penalty." "The skills with which the flautist won the esteem of D. Maria and Pedro III are not of our knowledge." "It is said that this man would make the queen laugh with his jokes and... he would ingratiate himself the favours of the Queen to soften the bitterness of the lady" "Domingos Botelho married D. Rita Preciosa." "As judge of the Cascais province wanted a place of greater prestige." "He settled in Lisbon, in the Ajuda parish, in 1784." "Simao was born in that year, the second of his children." "Domingos Botelho, helped by good luck again, gained the transfer to Vila Real, his greatest ambition." "Simao was one year old when he arrived in Porto, in front of the convent of Monchique and from there he went on with his family to Vila Real." "The noble lady was not happy with her husband." "She was harsh for she missed the court, the pomp of the royal apartments and the most harmonious loves, sacrificed to the whims of the queen." "But this disgusting life did not prevent them from having children." "Meneses, what is it all this?" "These are our friends and relatives come to welcome us." "In which century are we on this mountain?" "In which century?" "We are in the seventeenth century, here as in Lisbon." "Ah, isn't so?" "I thought the time here had stopped at the twelfth century." "At a league in Vila Real the nobles from the city were waiting for the fellow citizen." "Each family had a sedan chair with the family emblem." "The one of Correias de Mesquita was the most antiquated, the liveries of the servants were the most worn and moth-eaten among the bystanders." "Fernando Botelho, the father of the judge, came out of the parade to give his hand to his daughter-in-law." "Isn't it dangerous to move on this piece of antique?" "I assure you that my sedan still isn't one hundred years old and the mules are no more than thirty." "They knew that she was the lady of D. Maria I, but for the pride showed, they wondered if she was the queen." "The bells played when the cortege arrived at the house of Fernando Botelho." "D. Rita told the husband that the reception was noisy and vulgar." "It's a beautiful abode for those educated in palaces at Mafra, Sintra, Queluz and Bemposta..." "D. Rita told her husband that she was afraid of being devoured by rats, that the rules in the harmony of marriage did not force to die of cold a gentle wife, accustomed to the pillows in the palace of the kings." "Domingos Botelho adapted to the wishes of the bride and he began to build a small palace." "His means were barely enough to build the foundation." "He wrote to the Queen and received a grant to complete the house." "D. Rita laughed of her cousins that for her love powdered their wigs ungracefully and they loudly rode their steeds, pretending to know the horse racing virtues of the Marquis of Marialva." "The only evil that troubled his spirit was the mirror." "He was seeing himself frankly ugly while he found D. Rita every day more in bloom." "In ancient history no example of love without breaking between a filthy husband and a beautiful bride came to his memory except from the marriage between Venus and Vulcan." "If the veil of perfidy was raised," "I would not have to complain with Jupiter nor I would cast traps to my cousins." "Along with Luis Botelho's carbine, used to kill the lieutenant, there were the blunderbusses in which the judge was considered a specialist." "This life of anxiety didn't last long." "Thanks to his friends he was appointed superintendent in Lamego." "In 1801 he became judge of the Supreme Court in Viseu." "What does the letter say?" "Manuel says that he can not live with his brother, he fears his bloodthirsty nature." "He says that at every step he fears for his life, because Simao uses the money for the books to buy guns." "He lives with the most known agitators of the University and runs through the streets at night insulting the residents and pushing them to fight." "What a shame!" "My son Simao is the true portrait of great-grandfather," "Paulo Botelho Correia, the most valiant noble that Tras-os-Montes ever produced." "Manuel, always more terrified by the violence of Simao, leaves Coimbra on holiday and goes to Viseu asking his father for a different fate." "I want you to become a cavalry cadet, my son." "He leaves for Braganca and he declares himself noble to become a cadet." "Meanwhile Simao goes back to Viseu with the approved exams." "The father is surprised for his talent and he forgives his extravagances." "He asks him about his life together with Manuel." "He wanted me to conduct a monastic life." "The fifteen years of Simao seem twenty." "He is a strong, handsome man but without genius." "He chooses his friends among the people of Viseu." "If D. Rita reprimands his unworthy choices, he makes fun of the genealogies and especially those of General Caldeirao who died deep-fried." "This caused the resentment of his mother." "Seeing things through the eyes of his wife, the judge shared his distaste for his son." "You don't hang out with bunglers, do you?" "At the end of his holidays the judge had a big disagreement." "A servant, while bringing the mules to drink, due to carelessness or on purpose, had broken some vases." "The owners beat him while Simao was passing by." "Domingos Botelho roared against his son and ordered the officer to arrest him." "D. Rita, was angry as the father, but still being a mother, sent in secret some money to her son to let him run away to Coimbra so that he could wait there for his father's forgiveness." "Simao Botelho carried with him arrogant beliefs about his strength." "His memories inspired him to new feats." "Most of the students sympathized with the stuttering theories of freedom more for intuition than for knowledge." "The French revolutionaries had not been able to bring their clamours in this corner of the world." "The doctrines of social regeneration through the guillotine had a few timid defenders in Portugal, but these were part of the new generation." "The troops, commanded by the Duke of Lafoes, didn't stop this fight, because Luis Pinto de Sousa bargained an ignominious peace in Badajoz, yielding Olivencia to Spain excluding the British from the ports and compensating France on several million." "Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre and others are the names of the revolution." "Whoever discredits them, in my presence, will have to confront me!" "His speeches, parodies of some clandestine diatribe of Saint-Just, made flee those who had applauded him for his most rational principles of freedom." "One day he proclaimed the academic demagogue to the few ones remained faithful for fear or for spirit affinity." "Portugal can only regenerate through a christening of blood, so that the Hydra of the tyrants cannot raise one of its heads again against the club of the Hercules of the people." "The speech became the more intense while speaking about regicide, when a group of archers cooled his exaltation." "The Jacobin, surrounded and disarmed by the archers, was led to the academic prison." "Thanks to his father's friends and to the relatives of D. Rita Preciosa, he was freed six months later." "After losing the academic year, Simao went back to Viseu." "The judge refused his presence threatening to throw him out of the house." "His mother, more for duty than for love, intervened and managed to have his child sat at the common table." "In three months the customs of Simao changed extraordinarily." "He began to despise the company of the common people." "He rarely went out, alone or with the youngest sister, his favourite." "Simao, we are already at the table." "In the sweet summer nights he remained outside until dawn." "At home he locked himself in his room and went out only to sit at the table." "Simao Botelho loved." "He loved a neighbor, a 15 year-old girl, a rich heiress, ordinarily beautiful and from a good family." "From his window he saw her for the first time and loved her ever since." "D. Rita was surprised by this change and the husband she had convinced, after five months, allowed his son to speak to him again." "Simao confided to the younger sister." "Teresa was not insensitive to the wound inferred in the neighbor's heart." "She also loved him with a seriousness unusual for her age." "This love was singularly discreet." "They spoke to each other for three months without being noticed by the neighbors nor making their families suspicious." "They promised each other an honest future." "They say that love when you are 15 is only play, the latest manifestation of the love for the dolls, the little bird's attempt to fly out of the nest with the eyes fixed on the mother that from the near front is calling." "The daughter knows what loving much is, as the mother knows what is flying away." "I, Teresa de Albuquerque, am perhaps an exception in my love." "My family is hated by Teresa's father as a result of a process where my father issued judgments against him." "I also injured two of his father's servants during the dispute at the spring." "It's obvious that the love of Teresa, refusing to submit herself to the harshness of his father, is true and strong." "Father!" "No, father." "Eighteen years!" "And banished from home, from love and family!" "Nevermore the sky of Portugal neither rehabilitation nor dignity nor a friend!" "Hatred!" "Hatred, yes, against the false virtues of men, who became barbarians in the name of honor." "Eighteen years..." "When they called him to leave for Coimbra, he stepped out of bed so transfigured that his mother, informed about his anguished face," "went into his room to tell him not to leave while feverish." "But Simao, with a thousand projects in mind, thought it was better to leave for Coimbra." "Pay attention, Simao." "I inform you that I'll fully disown you if you'll commit new extravagances." ""My father will lock me in a convent because of you." "I'll suffer every pain for your love." "Don't forget me, you'll find me again in the convent or in heaven always yours and faithful." "Leave for Coimbra." "I'll send you my letters." "In the first one I'll tell you the name you'll use to respond to your poor Teresa."" "The change in the student amazed the academy." "If he was not in class, he could not be found anywhere." "He confided his secrets to no one but to Teresa in long letters which allowed him to rest from the tasks of science." "Then Manuel Botelho, a cadet in Braganca, detached in Porto, graduated and committed himself to mathematics in the academy." "The news of the change of his brother cheered him up." "He went to live with him." "He found him quiet, but absorbed in a thought that made him intractable." "They lived together for a short time, because of the unfortunate love of Manuel Botelho for a woman from the Azores, married to an academic." "The passionate woman got lost between the illusions of her lover." "She left her husband and fled with Manuel to Lisbon and from there to Spain." "Teresa's father would not insist against the judge if the marriage of their children had been able to reconcile the hatred and contempt between the families." "Rita's mother forbade her daughters to exchange gazes with them." "The next day, encouraged by the sympathy of that gesture of friendship," "Rita went back to the window." "She saw Teresa gazing upon it like she was waiting." "Are you my friend?" "One day you will be my sister." "Do not say anything to your family." "This would badly hurt me and Simao." "How dared she!" "There is no more respect in this house!" "Do not dare to lay your eyes on my family!" "Just marry a shoemaker who will be a worthy son-in-law to your father." "Teresa did not hear the ending of that invective." "She fled stunned and humiliated." "But as the minister continued to scream," "Tadeu de Albuquerque appeared at a window and the wrath of the judge increased." "A torrent of insults that had been contained for a long time was poured on the neighbor who didn't dare respond." "Tadeu questioned his daughter and was led to believe that the wrath of Domingos Botelho descended from the fact that the two girls had been innocently entertaining each other." "He excused the childishness of Teresa telling her not to return to the window." "This calm of the noble man, whose nature was rough, can be explained by the plan to marry the daughter to the cousin Baltasar Coutinho of Castro Daire, owner of an estate and a noble of the same lineage." "He decided to call the nephew from Castro Daire to Viseu." "In Baltasar Coutinho passion aroused so quickly as much as the heart of Teresa freezed of terror and disgust." "The heir of Castro Daire, attributing her coldness to modesty and shyness, was gratified by the elegance of that soul and enjoyed the pleasure of a slow but sure conquest." "It's time that I open my heart to you." "Are you willing to listen to me?" "I am always willing to listen to you, cousin Baltasar." "I believe that our hearts are joined." "Now it is necessary that our families unite together." "Did I say something unpleasant?" "You told me something that is impossible to achieve." "You are wrong, our hearts are not joined." "I never thought about marrying you nor that you would've thought about it." "Do you despise me, cousin Teresa?" "No, sir." "As I said, you have my esteem." "This is why I can't marry a friend that I'm not able to love." " The unhappiness wouldn't be just mine." " Very good..." " Who is disputing your heart with me?" " What would you get knowing it?" "I will know that my cousin loves another man..." "Is it correct?" "Yes." " So much to oppose your father?" " It isn't so." "The heart is stronger than the submissive will of a daughter." "Opposing would be to marry against the will of my father, indeed I didn't tell you about any wedding, I just told you that I'm in love." "I am surprised by the way you talk!" "Your sixteen years are so abundant on words!" "It is not just words, cousin." "These are feelings that deserve your esteem because they are true." "If I was lying, would you think higher of me?" "No, cousin." "You did fine to tell the truth and to be honest." "You do not want to tell me who the happy mortal of your preference is?" " What do you need to know it for?" " I need it very much, cousin." "We all have vanities." "I'd like to see myself won by those who have merits I don't possess in your eyes." "Would you like to reveal me your secret, as you would say it to your cousin and friend Baltasar?" " I can't consider you my friend anymore." " You don't want me as a friend either?" "You won't forgive my sincerity, from now on you will be my enemy." "On the contrary..." "Exactly the contrary." "I'll prove to be your friend if I ever see you married to a miserable man, unworthy of you." " Married..." " Married to some famous drunkard, some stout rough-neck, some distinguished knight who's passing the school years in jail in Coimbra." " Is there anything more to say, cousin?" " Yes." "Don't you think you are talking to an miserabe lover." "You are talking with your closest relative, with a sincere friend and the most determined protector of your dignity." "Cousin, please sit down for a moment." "As you know, I attended my last year in Coimbra and I got to know Simao Botelho." "Knowing of your affection for him," "I was amazed of your good faith." "But your innocence must be your guardian angel." "You have not seen Simao Botelho idle with the lowest villainy typical of this region?" "Haven't you seen your servants with their heads cracked by him?" "Didn't you know that in Coimbra, he went through the streets, full of wine, armed like a bandit declaring war against the nobles, the king and the religion of our fathers?" "Didn't you know all this by chance?" "I partially ignored it and it didn't sadden me to know it." "Since I've known him, Simao has caused no sorrows to his family." "And do you believe that Simao has changed his behavior for your love?" " I don't know nor I think about it." " Don't get angry, cousin." "I will tell you my last words." "Until I'll live, I'll do everything in my power to save you from Simao Botelho." "If your father dies, I'll be there for you." "If the law does not defend you from that devil," "I will show to that rough-neck that the victory over the water bearers will not avoid him being expelled from the house of my uncle Tadeu de Albuquerque." " Do you want to rule over me?" " I want to lead you, since your reason needs help." "If you'll use your judgment, I will be indifferent to your fate." "I'll be on my way, cousin Teresa." "Baltasar Coutinho told his uncle the basics of the conversation." "The father slowed his anger and started pondering." "A few hours later he called his daughter." "Sit here, my daughter." "I want you to marry your cousin Baltasar." "But I know that this is not your will." "I will not force you to fulfill my desire, but I will not allow you to offer your heart to the son of my worst enemy." "I am one step away from the grave and I will fall in it even more quickly knowing that I've lost the love of my daughter who I consider already dead." "I ask you, Teresa, if you have any doubts to enter a convent and wait there for the death of your father to be unhappy there as you wish." "My father..." "I will enter in the monastery if this is your will." "However..." "I ask you not to deprive yourself of my company nor to deprive me of your affection for fear that I will commit shameful actions or that I may be disobedient, when the virtue is to be obedient to you." "I will be dead for all men, but not for my father." "Teresa knew that loyalty often stumbles in the path of life and that good purposes are achieved by shortcuts devoid of frankness and sincerity." "In the letter he wrote to Simao she said that she was taking time, focusing on the future, avoiding the torment of the convent and without breaking with the old man in disobeyance." "Teresa's sky seemed clear." "At the dawn of a Sunday in June 1803," "Teresa was called to go with his father to the mass in the parish." "Frightened, the girl got dressed and presented herself to his father." "He asked her if she was in a good mood and if she wanted to give her father an happy remaining old age." "He said: today you'll give your hand to your cousin Baltasar, my daughter." "It's necessary that you blindly follow your father's lead." "As soon as you've taken this hard step, you will know that it is for your happiness." "It's for your own happiness." "For your own happiness." "Teresa was so shaken that she hardly heard the first words and the last ones not at all." "You don't answer me, Teresa?" " What should I answer, my father?" " Do you grant me what I'm asking you?" "Will you fill with happiness my remaining days?" "Will you be happy with my sacrifice?" "Do not say sacrifice, my daughter." "Tomorrow at this time you'll see the change your soul will have made." "Your cousin owns all the virtues." " He wants me despite my refusal?" " But he is in love, my daughter!" "And he has enough self confidence to believe that at the end you will love him very much!" "Won't I rather hate him forever?" "Even now I despise him as I would have never thought of being able to despise!" "Father, kill me, but don't force me to marry my cousin." "Violence is useless, because I will not get married." "You will get married." "I want you to get married!" "I want it!" "Otherwise you will be cursed forever!" "You will die in a convent!" "This house will go to your cousin." "No infamous one will put foot on the carpets of my grandfather." "If your soul is vile, you can not inherit the honored titles who were insulted by the father of this miserable that you love." "Go to your room and expect to end up in another from which you will see no ray of sunshine." "Teresa went calmly in her room." "Tadeu de Albuquerque went to his nephew and told him that he could not give him his daughter, because he didn't have a daughter anymore." "Baltasar, who according to his uncle was a complex of virtues, had only one flaw: the absolute lack of pride." "Baltasar did not approve her reclusion in a convent and adviced his uncle to leave her at home." "Teresa was surprised by her father's calm and got suspicious of his inconsistency." "She wrote to Simao." "She hid nothing of what had happened nor she omitted the threats by Baltasar." "She confided him her concerns for some new violent plan." "The student, reading about the threats was too blinded by anger to decipher the remaining text." "He trembled as he had fever and the veins of his forehead were protruding swollen." "It was not the outburst of a passionate heart, but the arrogant nature that boiled his blood." "Leaving for Castro Daire to stab Teresa's cousin in his home was the first advice whispered to Simao by the fury of hatred."