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diff --git a/27941-8.txt b/27941-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..63b8efe --- /dev/null +++ b/27941-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,574 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Supplemento ao n.º 7 das Insomnias de +Camillo Castello Branco, by Anselmo de Morais + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Supplemento ao n.º 7 das Insomnias de Camillo Castello Branco + +Author: Anselmo de Morais + +Release Date: January 31, 2009 [EBook #27941] + +Language: Portuguese + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUPPLEMENTO AO N.O 7 DAS INSOMNIAS *** + + + + +Produced by Pedro Saborano (produced from scanned images +of public domain material from Google Book Search) + + + + + + +SUPPLEMENTO AO N.º 7 + +DAS + +INSOMNIAS + +DE + +CAMILLO CASTELLO BRANCO + + +O tratamento da gangrena é o ferro em braza; os grandes perversos eram +tambem marcados com o ferro em braza na testa ou nas costas para +condemnação permanente. Temos hoje de applicar este tratamento na pessoa +de _Camillo Castello Branco_, pela sua dupla qualidade de podridão +physica e degradação moral. Ha muitos annos que este galeriano se tornou +o symbolo da torpeza de costumes, da indignidade em todos os actos da +sua vida, uma especie de cadaver ambulante dentro do qual vomita +corrupção um vampiro que exhala o asco da sacristia, a atrocidade do +covil, a vilania do alcouce, e a linguagem desenfreada do açougue. A +cara d'este monstro, ultraje da especie humana, é a sua biographia; +n'ella estão escriptos os vergões das chicotadas publicas que tem +levado, e ainda se vêem as manchas dos escarros de desprezo que tem +provocado. O amolecimento da espinha dorsal, a que a natureza o +condemnou, é a historia da crápula em que se tem revolvido; emfim o +idiotismo de que se está sentindo possuir arrasta-o para o abysmo da +bestialidade d'onde nunca teria sahido, se o caso de uma infamia o não +trouxesse de guardador de cabras em Villa Real para uma terra grande +como o Porto, que o tem tollerado como uma especie de cloaca maxima, +como o sumidouro de todas as paixões abjectas que se manifestam ás vezes +em qualquer sociedade. + +A côr livida d'este miseravel que em França nem mesmo chegaria a ser +Cartucho, e na Italia seria engraxa-botas de Casanova, a sua côr livida +representa a alliança com o patibulo, se é que Camillo Castello Branco +valesse a ponta do baraço necessario para o enforcar. Elle não vale nem +mesmo esse pedaço de corda. Deixamos estes traços da sua physionomia; +passemos a indicar os mais caracteristicos episodios da sua negra epopêa +de iniquidades: + +Quando Camillo Castello Branco guardava cabras em Villa Real, causou a +ruina de uma pobre rapariga filha de um taverneiro; o pae da criança +chamou-o para elle casar com a filha. + +Camillo acceitou a proposta com a condição de lhe dar o taverneiro um +fato novo e uma moeda. Recebido o ajuste, Camillo fugiu com o fato e o +dinheiro para a cidade do Porto, e aqui continuou o seu cyclo de +immundas aventuras. Começou desempenhando o papel de aprendiz de padre, +recebendo apoio dos jornaes miguelistas e tendo só em vista uma cousa--o +rapinar alguns cobres ao bispo. Padres e miguelistas achavam em Camillo +um inspirado, capaz de ser um Ravailhac ou um Jacques Clemente; mas o +ex-guardador de cabras sacrificou todos os planos dos seus protectores a +uma só cousa que tem sido o movel de todas as suas acções--comer e +babujar. Com a raiva do asno que morde a albarda, Camillo annullou a +protecção d'estas duas influencias descompondo uns e outros. Foi então +quando se sentiu uma potencia, que tinha a força do mal para se fazer +temer. + +Explorou este novo esgoto que se lhe abriu na alma, e assentou banca de +descompostura por dinheiro: nas descomposturas que lhe pagaram contra a +consorte do conde de Bolhão, a par das libras tambem recebeu algumas +moedas de escarros na cara; nas descomposturas contra a snr.ª Brown, +recebeu tambem n'isso que de cara passou a ser lata, as publicas +chicotadas vibradas por seu filho Ricardo Brown. + +Os differentes romances obscenos que foi escrevendo eram uma supporação +d'esta necessidade de abocanhar; leram-se os romances para se +descobrirem os escandalos portuenses. Mas quando o publico se viu +cançado d'este desaforado histrião e os editores se não quizeram mais +deixar roubar por elle, Camillo Castello Branco lançou-se n'uma empreza +nova: explorou uma mulher casada que tivera a desgraça de ter perdido o +senso moral com a leitura frequente d'esses romances a que alludimos. +Todos sabem o caso da morte do infeliz marido, e como Camillo Castello +Branco foi completar nas enxovias a educação que encetou com as cabras +em Villa Real. + +Da cadeia começou Camillo a abrir brecha para a rapina na casa Moré, +mandando ali mostrar um Romance de descompostura ao dignissimo +procurador regio que não lhe tolerou certas obscenidades no carcere; o +amigo do procurador regio, gerente da dita casa, teve de pagar o romance +para poupar um desgosto ao magistrado respeitavel. Ainda não ha muito +tempo, que o snr. José Gomes Monteiro se refugiu no nosso Escriptorio +para evitar o encontro de Camillo na loja Moré, que ia ali armar uma +_escroquerie_, com o fim, dizia elle, de pagar uma decima. Livre da +cadeia, porque a lei quasi que não admitte prova no adulterio, Camillo +Castello Branco devorou então os bens d'essa infeliz creatura do Senhor +que arrastou á aversão publica. Depois de ter comido o que pertencia á +sua victima, viu o que ainda pertencia ao filho d'ella, cujos +rendimentos eram utitisados pela mãe, que, por não ter passado a +segundas nupcias, ficára com a administração d'esse resto: nada mais +natural que armar um cerco a este dinheiro. + +Em primeiro logar não casou com a mulher a quem devia uma reparação, +para ella não perder a administração do filho; e em segundo logar mandou +agora a criança para a Africa, na esperança d'elle alli morrer e então +poder livremente dispôr d'esse resto de dinheiro. Alerta snr. Curador +geral dos orfãos. Por onde quer que se olhe este monturo de crimes, que +por ahi infecciona os áres por todos os lados Camillo Castello Branco só +mostra aspectos repugnantes; ultimamente comprometteu a sorte de Vieira +de Castro com a sua defeza; explorou a desgraça do amigo com o drama o +_Condemnado_ que vendeu a dous individuos; e por ultimo lucra ainda com +a morte do homem de quem se diz amigo, vendendo para o Brazil por +800$000 reis as cartas que esse desgraçado lhe escreveu da Africa. + +Para Camillo Castello Branco as palavras honra, dever, amizade, são como +as particulas sacrosantas que tivessem cahido em poder de um macaco; +privado do minimo vislumbre de senso moral, a moralidade, a vergonha, o +pudor são para elle como as côres para um cego de nascença. Ultimamente +aspirou a um titulo de visconde, porque viu alguns negreiros e agiotas +ornados com esse distinctivo; elle por tanto achava-se com maior direito +para se distinguir pelo seu cynismo. Como alguem do paço se oppôz a que +acabassem de degradar os titulos nobiliarchicos, Camillo começou a +insultar a Casa de Bragança. Mas como hoje as suas diatribes sujas +produzem o effeito contrario ao que elle mira, e como já ninguem lhe +pagava para pôr a sua penna ao serviço da calumnia, ligou-se então com +um francez devasso chamado Ernesto Chardron, para a publicação de um +cano de despejo intitulado _Insomnias de Camillo Castello Branco_. Este +snr. Chardron é aquelle que violou a casa de um seu compatriota, +raptando-lhe a mulher, e aquelle mesmo que estaria a estas horas na +cadeia, se o gerente da antiga casa Moré tivesse sellado as portas do +estabelecimento quando este aventureiro sahiu d'alli para traficar á +vontade. Os dois grilhetas acharam-se dignos um do outro; Chardron é o +passador dos latrocinios que o Camillo pratica sobre a honra dos que o +desauthoraram perante a honestidade. Ora n'este opusculo n.º 7 das +_Insomnias de Camillo Castello Branco_, com a sua auctoridade de juiz de +enxovia, onde já residiu, diz que eu lhe roubei o livro _Mosaico_, +publicando-o contra a sua vontade. Este homem, que tem recebido dinheiro +por livros que nunca escreveu, recebeu de nós 14 libras para escrever o +_Mosaico_, e mais 9 libras por outra comedella; quando nos viu com o +livro em metade da impressão, julgou ter-nos o pé no pescoço e exigiu +mais dinheiro. Recusei-me a este logro e exploração sordida, e para não +perder o que já lhe tinha dado publiquei o livro na altura em que já +estava. Camillo fez-me um arresto, mas o Tribunal da Relação em vista +dos documentos de letra do proprio Camillo, mandou-me entregar o que era +minha propriedade, por Accordão de 31 de Agosto de 1868. O desgraçado +paria, porque um Accordão restabeleceu o meu direito, vem hoje chamar-me +ladrão. Não vamos aos tribunaes, porque Camillo Castello Branco +manifesta já os primeiros symptomas de demencia, e porque um elogio da +sua bôcca seria a maior affronta que podiamos receber. Camillo +lembrando-se ainda do tempo em que furtava os brincos ás criadas da casa +onde morava, está agora com a monomania de que todos o roubam; eil-o ora +nos jornaes a accusar um garoto que o servia, eil-o a restabelecer-lhe +os creditos, dando a entender que fôra roubado pela amazia e até pelo +proprio filho! Eil-o contando as colheres de prata que pertenceram ao +marido da sua victima. Decididamente os amigos de Camillo têm razão para +caracterisar-lhe o estado de demencia. Este larapio das livrarias dos +fidalgos de provincia, empulhando-os com livros de hippiatrica, e rindo +da sua lorpice, este vendilhão acobertado com o pseudonymo de Jorge +Correia, tem a audacia da rameira, para chamar aos outros aquillo que o +distingue. Assim como Alexandre Herculano o pôz fóra de sua casa, a +sociedade devia expungil-o, ficando á conta do municipio o recompensar +aquelle que lhe deitasse a bóla. + +A nossa vingança está breve: ir-lhe-hemos regar a cova com o que elle +sabe, e temos a certeza que assim como se guardam os exemplares dos +notaveis aleijões, a memoria ominosa de Camillo Castello Branco hade +conservar-se por muito tempo na execração publica como uma das grandes +aberrações moraes da especie humana. + +N. B. Em vista dos factos que deixamos apontados Camillo Castello Branco +perdeu toda a imputação e auctoridade moral. + +Por isso, emquanto á accusação que nos fins de não termos pago a dois +escriptores os artigos que enviaram para a _Gazeta Litteraria_, temos +apenas a dizer ao publico: entregamos a Camillo, como era do contracto, +o dinheiro destinado, a esse fim, de que temos os devidos documentos. + +Porto, 22 de Julho de 1874. + + _Anselmo de Moraes._ + + +Porto--Imprensa Portugueza. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Supplemento ao n.º 7 das Insomnias de +Camillo Castello Branco, by Anselmo de Morais + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUPPLEMENTO AO N.O 7 DAS INSOMNIAS *** + +***** This file should be named 27941-8.txt or 27941-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/9/4/27941/ + +Produced by Pedro Saborano (produced from scanned images +of public domain material from Google Book Search) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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