“A lenda que se
criara mantinha aos seus proprietários longe de olhares indiscretos. Isso e os
altos muros de pedra erguidos à volta de toda a propriedade…. Naquela fria
madrugada, uma igual a tantas outras, quando as damas de companhia se dirigiram
aos quartos, depararam-se com eles desertos… E desse modo tanto o palácio como
as terras circundantes passaram para o espólio da ordem da Irmandade da Cruz. E
foi, ainda durante aquele século, transformado numa escola exclusiva para
raparigas.”
"The legend kept their owners away from prying eyes. That and the high stone walls that surrounded the entire property .... In that cold dawn, one like so many others, when chaperones went to the rooms, they encountered them deserts ... From that day both the palace and the surrounding lands passed to the order of the Sistherhood of the Cross. It was also during that century transformed into an exclusive school for girls."
"The legend kept their owners away from prying eyes. That and the high stone walls that surrounded the entire property .... In that cold dawn, one like so many others, when chaperones went to the rooms, they encountered them deserts ... From that day both the palace and the surrounding lands passed to the order of the Sistherhood of the Cross. It was also during that century transformed into an exclusive school for girls."