Counselor Ayres' Memorial
A retired diplomat back in Rio keeps a diary of small observations and lets it fill with a single household: an elderly couple who freed their slaves, and the young widow they have taken as a daughter, whose remarriage would leave them alone in the garden. Abolition and the fall of the empire pass through as weather. Machado's last, written the year after his wife's death, and his gentlest.
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- continues ↑ Esau and Jacob
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