Portuguese–English parallel text
O Fantasma de Canterville
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde · retold
A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
O Sr. Otis compra uma casa
Mr. Otis Buys a House
O Sr. Hiram B. Otis, o ministro americano na Inglaterra, queria comprar Canterville Chase.
Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister in England, wanted to buy Canterville Chase.
“Você está cometendo um erro bobo”, todos diziam a ele. “Aquela casa velha é mal-assombrada!”
“You are making a stupid mistake,” everybody told him. “That old house is haunted!”
Lord Canterville, o dono, era um homem muito honesto, por isso também avisou o Sr. Otis.
Lord Canterville, the owner, was a very honest man, so he warned Mr. Otis too.
“Hoje nós não moramos lá”, disse Lord Canterville. “Uma noite, minha velha tia, a duquesa, estava se vestindo para o jantar. De repente, duas mãos de esqueleto tocaram os ombros dela, e ela nunca mais ficou realmente bem.
“We do not live there now,” said Lord Canterville. “One evening my old aunt, the Duchess, was dressing for dinner. Suddenly two skeleton hands touched her shoulders, and she never really got well again.
“Várias pessoas da minha família já viram o fantasma, Sr. Otis. Nosso padre, o reverendo Augustus Dampier, também já viu. Nossos jovens empregados foram embora. Minha esposa não conseguia dormir por causa dos barulhos no corredor e na biblioteca.”
“Several people in my family have seen the ghost, Mr. Otis. Our priest, the Rev. Augustus Dampier, has seen it too. Our young servants left us. My wife could not sleep because of noises in the corridor and the library.”
“Meu lord”, respondeu o Sr. Otis, “eu vou levar os móveis e o fantasma por um preço justo. Eu venho de um país moderno, e nós temos tudo o que o dinheiro pode comprar. Se a Europa tem um fantasma, logo vamos colocar ele em um dos nossos museus.”
“My lord,” answered Mr. Otis, “I will take the furniture and the ghost at a fair price. I come from a modern country, and we have everything that money can buy. If Europe has a ghost, we’ll soon put it in one of our museums.”
“Eu acho que o fantasma é real”, disse Lord Canterville com um sorriso. “As pessoas sabem dele desde 1584. Ele sempre aparece antes de uma morte na nossa família.”
“I am afraid the ghost is real,” said Lord Canterville with a smile. “People have known about it since 1584. It always appears before a death in our family.”
“Bem, o médico da família também vem nessas horas, Lord Canterville”, disse o Sr. Otis. “Mas não existem fantasmas, senhor, e as leis da natureza não vão parar para os lordes britânicos.”
“Well, the family doctor comes then too, Lord Canterville,” said Mr. Otis. “But there are no ghosts, sir, and the laws of nature will not stop for British lords.”
Lord Canterville não entendeu muito bem isso. “Vocês são realmente muito naturais na América”, respondeu ele. “Se você não se importa com um fantasma na casa, tudo bem. Mas lembra: eu avisei.”
Lord Canterville did not really understand this. “You are certainly very natural in America,” he answered. “If you don’t mind a ghost in the house, that is fine. But remember, I warned you.”
Algumas semanas depois, o Sr. Otis comprou a casa, e a família dele se mudou para lá.
A few weeks later Mr. Otis bought the house, and his family moved there.
Muitas senhoras americanas na Europa fingiam estar doentes, porque achavam que isso parecia elegante. Mas a Sra. Otis era forte e saudável e nunca cometeu esse erro.
Many American ladies in Europe pretended to be ill, because they thought it looked elegant. But Mrs. Otis was strong and healthy and never made this mistake.
De muitas maneiras, ela era bem inglesa. A Inglaterra e a América agora tinham tudo em comum, menos a língua, claro.
In many ways she was quite English. England and America shared everything now, except language, of course.
O filho mais velho dela era um jovem de cabelo claro que dançava muito bem. Os pais amavam o país deles, por isso deram a ele o nome de Washington, e ele sempre odiou isso.
Her oldest son was a fair-haired young man who danced beautifully. His parents loved their country, so they named him Washington, and he always hated that.
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