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--Tudo optimo! gritou Jacintho. A serra, Deos louvado, prospera. E
agora, para cima! Tu hoje ficas em Tormes. Para contar da Civilisação.
No largo por traz da estação, debaixo dos eucalyptos, que revi com
gosto, esperavam os tres cavallos, e dous bellos burros brancos, um com
cadeirinha para a Thereza, outro com um cesto de verga, para metter
dentro o heroico Jacinthinho, um e outro servidos á estribeira por um
creado. Eu ajudára a prima Joanninha a montar, quando o carregador
appareceu com um masso de jornaes e papeis, que eu esquecera na
carruagem. Era uma papelada, de que me surtira na Estação d'Orleans,
toda recheada de mulheres nuas, de historietas sujas, de parisianismo,
d'erotismo. Jacintho, que as reconhecera, gritou rindo:
--Deita isso fóra!
E eu atirei, para um montão de lixo, ao canto do Pateo, aquelle putrido
rebotalho da Civilisação. E montei. Mas ao dobrar para o caminho
empinado da serra, ainda me voltei, para gritar adeus ao Pimenta, de
quem me esquecera. O digno chefe, debruçado sobre o monturo, apanhava,
sacudia, recolhia com amor aquellas bellas estampas, que chegavam de
Paris, contavam as delicias de Paris, derramavam atravez do mundo a
seducção de Paris.
Em fila começamos a subir para a Serra. A tarde adoçava o seu esplendor
d'estio. Uma aragem trazia, como offertados, perfumes das flôres
silvestres. As ramagens moviam, com um aceno de doce acolhimento, as
suas folhas vivas e relusentes. Toda a passarinhada cantava, n'um
alvoroço de alegria e de louvor. As agoas correntes, saltantes,
lusidias, despediam um brilho mais vivo, n'uma pressa mais animada.
Vidraças distantes de casas amaveis, flammejavam com um fulgor d'ouro. A
serra toda se offertava, na sua belleza eterna e verdadeira. E, sempre
adiante da nossa fila, por entre a verdura, fluctuava no ar a bandeira
branca, que o Jacinthinho não largava, de dentro do seu cesto, com a
haste bem segura na mão. Era _a bandeira do Castello_, affirmára elle.
E na verdade me parecia que, por aquelles caminhos, atravez da natureza
campestre e mansa,--o meu Principe, atrigueirado nas soalheiras e nos
ventos da serra, a minha prima Joanninha, tão doce e risonha mãe, os
dois primeiros representantes da sua abençoada tribu, e eu--, tão longe
de amarguradas illusões e de falsas delicias, trilhando um solo eterno,
e de eterna solidez, com a alma contente, e Deus contente de nós,
serenamente e seguramente subiamos--para o Castello da Gran-Ventura!

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24 de abril de 1901.

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