Stories of Paraná - "Your" Andrézinho

Stories of Paraná - "Your" Andrézinho

"Your" Andrézinho
Thiago Brandão Neto

At the request of a friend who had one foot on the altar, the genial D. Francisco Manuel de Mello, Portuguese writer of the seventeenth century, wrote a tasty "Charter Guide Married", containing teachings still quite useful for married, engaged, widowed and quetais.
An example: Don Francisco called "marriage of death" the union of a girl with an old man. He explains: "the old married ladies rush to death, either by mistrust, now in the excesses."
For there was something else that was said of "their" Andrézinho the eve of marriage with Mary, there Lowland, lost village within the Municipality of South Bocaiúva, halfway Campinhos and Old Colony Marques de Abrantes.
Beautiful young woman with black hair and pink skin, even Maria had completed 18 years. Now "his" Andrézinho ... remainder of the first Polish settlers in the Colony, a widower, was the way to 83 years.
Man kid body, until he was reasonably well preserved for his age, but 83 years is 83 years.
Already going for about 30 years widowed, but the man only embestou to marry again did a few months, soon after the death of an only child, singleton. "I need someone to look after me in old age," he said.
Hence ... Why with a girl so young, instead of some widows nearby, was the question that no one dared to ask and he will never have to answer.
But he had no home in the community where no cochichasse the same thing: "this're not married, yeah, yeah, is buying a new Petica".
It turns out that "his" Andrézinho had a farm eight bushels well montadinha, wagon, mule team, three horses, a few cows, breeding pigs and chicken, corn planted two bedrooms, one bean ... Those bands, until it was a good asset. Already the girl Maria, wealth only had the family: father, mother and a bunch of brothers.
When "your" Andrézinho made the request, the mother of Mary wept for three days corners, whereas the father, that - as they say nowadays: given the greatest support.
It seems that even Mary was enchanted with the idea of ​​marriage.
Face, and won trousseau shoe leather sole - something she never limestone in life. And moreover, the old man would not last long ...
Only the priest Antonio, visiting heritage two or three times a year, refused to perform the marriage. - "That's absurd, it is sin!" - Snapped when he was approached by Andrézinho.
Eventually persuaded by the groom himself: - "If you do not marry, we gather up the same way, which is the greater sin."
The wooden chapel Ouro Fino never seen so many people like on their wedding day.
It seemed that everyone was there to take the stubbornness, or the barbecue cattle that would come later. "Your" Andrézinho insisted on waiting for the bride at the altar - which was not used by those bands - and instructed Maria to enter the church walking slowly, even if music had not.
When Mary appeared at the door of the church, the old man's face turned redder polish than usual.
Then he bowed slightly forward, her hands on his chest, still hunched over and crashed to the ground.
"Your" Andrézinho was dead! Massive heart attack! Not too much or distrust, the poor man died of anxiety; might even enjoy the bride.
Worse, is that there was marriage. And without marriage, Mary is not able to enjoy the heritage of Andrézinho.
Without heirs here, and no one could locate a relative of his in Poland, the farm's Andrézinho just passing time later, into the hands of government.
Thiago Brandão Neto entrepreneur is counter epequeno in Ponta Grossa.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.