A mysterious package of cash becomes the trust fund for Dona Placida, and the main character begins an affair with Virgilia, in this book.
The narrator of this book believes that everyone has a sword used on special occasions, because he was given a sword in celebration after the defeat of Napoleon. That man wants to enters politics after dumping his girlfriend for being lame in the leg, but his proposed respectable wife marries Lobo Neves instead. A mysterious package of cash becomes the trust fund for Dona Placida, and the main character begins an affair with Virgilia, in this book. A beggar who appears more prominently in another novel by the same author steals the watch of this novel's protagonist. In addition to that minor appearance of Quincas Borba, this novel boasts a frame narrative in which a man who contracts pneumonia at age sixty-five and dies decides only then to write his autobiography. For 10 points, name this novel by Joaqim Machado de Assis.
The narrator of this book believes that everyone has a sword used on special occasions, because he was given a sword in celebration after the defeat of Napoleon.
The Posthumous Memories of {Brás Cubas} [or {Epitaph of a Small Winner}; or Memórias póstumas de {Bras Cubas}]