Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:03:29 +0200
From: A.K. <andrej@andrejkoymasky.com>
Subject: The Other Part of the World 15/16 (historical)

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THE OTHER PART OF THE WORLD

by Andrej Koymasky (C) 2009

written on January 12, 2002

translated by the author

English text kindly revised by Bert Carley

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USUAL DISCLAIMER

"THE OTHER PART OF THE WORLD" is a gay story, with some parts containing
graphic scenes of sex between males. So, if in your land, religion,
family, opinion and so on this is not good for you, it will be better
not to read this story. But if you really want, or because YOU don't
care, or because you think you really want to read it, please be my
welcomed guest.

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Part IV - Chapter 15 - Life in Rio de Janeiro

When Dom Pedro II, age eighteen, in 1843 married princess Donna Teresa
Cristina Maria of Bourbon, daughter of the king of the Two Sicilies, all
that came from Italy became immediately very fashionable.

In Rio de Janeiro were organised several days of celebration to which
all the aristocracy and the high middle-class of Brazil took part. The
Gazeta of Rio de Janeiro published many articles about the weddings, the
ceremonies, the parties and the receptions that followed.

Idelfonso De Fonseca Fernandes, who was at that time a well-known and
established lawyer and who, happily married with Gra�a Maria, had
already two children, was named director of the Gazeta. As the newspaper
had been founded exactly in the birth year of Idelfonso, Gra�a Maria
jokingly said that her husband and the newspaper were twins.

In the occasion of the celebrations, also Afonso went to Rio, guest of
his brother, and he logically took with him also his Paulo, as he
promised he would show him, besides the monuments of the capital, also
the sumptuous throne of the Emperor that was in the Senate palace, that
was leaning on two "passing" lions, and that was entirely covered in
gold foil.

Afonso and Paulo, after one of their visits were back in Idelfonso's
residence. Paulo accompanied his lover to his bedroom, and he was really
excited and happy for the beautiful day spent together and the thousand
interesting things he had seen.

He embraced, kissed him and said, "Do you know, Afonso, that I am
terribly happy!"

"It is enough to look at you to see it, my love. Your happiness makes me
too happy. Are you glad for this journey?"

"I am happy being with you, wherever you are or you take me."

While they were exchanging sweet effusions, Idelfonso, who had heard
that his brother was back home, went upstairs to see him, because he
wanted make him a very interesting proposition. In fact Idelfonso had
been informed that a well-known doctor of Rio, who had his residence and
his surgery in a nice building in a very central position, practically
in face of the Senate Palace, having decided to move to Portugal, was
trying to sell everything, including the equipments, to another doctor
at a very convenient price.

Idefonso of course at once thought of his brother and wanted to propose
him that business, a real golden opportunity, before the said doctor
could find another buyer. He therefore went upstairs and when he was at
the door of his brother room, he opened it without caring to knock, as
he thought he was alone.

He stopped on the threshold, disconcerted, as he saw Afonso and his
nurse Paulo who were tightly embraced and kissing. The two lovers,
hearing the door open, hurriedly parted and turned, remaining frozen at
the view of Idefonso and of his dumbfounded expression.

Idefonso, terribly embarrassed, said, "Oh, forgive me Afonso... I didn't
want... I didn't think..."

Afonso threw a glance to Paulo and saw that his boyfriend's face had a
dead-like pallor. He then took his hand in a tender, reassuring gesture,
and turned again towards his brother.

"Come in, come in Idelfonso. I think it would be better we talk about
it, at this point." he said trying to keep a firm tone in his voice.

"No, forgive me... I should not... I am sorry..." Idelfonso answered not
knowing what to say, what to do, how he had to react at the scene he had
just seen and to its unmistakable meaning.

"You anyway did it, and you saw. I think it to be timely that you and I
talk about it. Come in, please, and let's sit for a moment. I want to
talk of it with you." he insisted pointing towards the writing desk that
was at the right of the wide canopy bed.

Idelfonso nodded and, trying to organize his ideas, he sat. Afonso drew
near two chairs, had Paulo sit on one and he sat near him, facing his
brother, separated from them only by the narrow and elegant writing
desk.

Idelfonso was the first to talk, "You don't have any need to justify
yourself with me, Afonso... I didn't know, I didn't think... but if
you... but if you and he..."

"Yes, dear brother, Paulo and I are lovers, it is now for three years.
You see, I never felt attracted by women, this is the reason why I
didn't yet marry and don't either intend to marry. But as I well know
how much my inclination is ill judged and even worst tolerated by our
society, I always did my best to hide my real nature. When I was a boy I
even tried to master and subdue it but, believe me, one cannot go
against his true nature."

"I never imagined it, Afonso, I never suspected it. Possibly because it
is just three years since you..."

"No, my dear Idelfonso. It is just three years that Paulo and I became
lovers and started to live together, but the fact that I prefer and look
for the company of people of my same sex and with my same
inclinations... it is about fifteen years."

"Fifteen years? And all along this time I was never aware of it!"

"Neither you, nor our parents or anybody else, to my luck. You can
imagine what would have happened to me if it came to light before..."

"But fifteen years ago you were just eighteen!"

"Yes. Do you remember, that year we went to visit our relatives, the
Rodrigues Torres de Itabora"... And, if you remember it, at their
residence there was as a guest also a young cavalry captain, a certain
Gianio Ara�jo Alvares... That young man in his close-fitting and shining
uniform at once fascinated me... He possibly understood what attraction
he was exerting on me. He proposed me to do a short trip on our horses
to the inland; we stopped at the river shores, he proposed me to
bathe... It has been him who, in that occasion, introduced me to this
kind of love..."

"He seduced you... he bent you to his yens, took profit of you who were
still a na�f and inexperienced boy..." Idelfonso commented in an
accusation tone.

"No, no dear brother, if anything it was me who seduced him, I can say.
In fact I was already fully conscious of my inclinations. It is just
that up to that day I never had the occasion, or the courage, to give
room to my desires... Yes, it has been me who seduced him, so that he
was my first man and that allowed me to fully understand that what I did
with him really corresponded to my true nature..."

"But... tell me, Afonso, are you happy with your... with this condition?
Don't you think a day to get married?"

"Yes, I am happy with it, mainly now that I can share my life with my
Paulo. And no, I don't absolutely think to get married, as I want to go
on sharing my life with Paulo and only with him."

"I see. In this case, well... I am glad for you, my dear brother... I am
glad for you two."

"You amaze me, Idelfonso... I was afraid you would have a reaction...
how can I say... a condemnation, disapproval, rejection if not even
scandalised, offended reaction and on the contrary I see you are
accepting what I am telling you with a remarkable calm, serenity... or
so it seems."

"I have to confess you that possibly up to a few years ago I would have
reacted exactly as you feared, I would have been scandalised and would
have strongly disapproved you. But if I am today able to accept with
serene tranquillity what I just came to know, I owe it to my dear and
good wife."

"To Gra�a Maria? What do you mean? What has she to do with it?"

Idelfonso then told him Jo�o and Tom�'s story and all the discussion he
had with Gra�a Maria about the love binding the two boys, and how Gra�a
succeeded in convincing him that there was nothing to condemn in their
love and rather that it had to be respected and, above all, protected.

"You mean that also those two servants are... are lovers?" Afonso asked,
slightly surprised.

"They are, in fact they sleep in the same room... and in a double bed.
They love each other, and they also are so tender..."

For the first time, overcoming his shyness, also Paulo spoke, "We two
too love each other, marquis. And I am devoted and faithful to your
brother." he said and delightfully blushed, but sustained Idelfonso's
glance.

The man smiled, "Good, I am glad for that. And if Afonso chose to give
you his love, it surely means that you deserve it. But now, let me come
to the reason why, so unexpectedly, I came to this room..." he said and
explained to Afonso the question of the surgery and apartment that was
available for sale there in Rio.

Afonso at first didn't seem so inclined to leave Curitiba and move to
Rio, both because in Curitiba there was their family and also because he
had a very good clientele, and he was esteemed and respected by the
local community.

But Idelfonso said, "My dear Afonso, mainly now that I know the binding
you have with Paulo, I think it would be much more suitable that you
come to live here in Rio. You see, at your age, with each passing year
it would seem more and more odd to our family, to our friends and
acquaintances that you don't marry. Moreover, as for a sheer chance I
came to know about your relationship, this could happen also there in
Curitiba and then, besides the possible legal consequences, your life
would become a real hell. You would loose the people's esteem and, what
is even worst, all your clientele. I can't say that here in Rio people
are not mean and full of prejudices, but the big city is anyway more
anonymous, allows us to live with a bigger freedom and in our own way
our lives. Of course here also you should be very discreet and prudent,
but... Moreover you can get here an even more chosen clientele and you
could earn much more than in Curitiba..."

Afonso told him he would think about it and would give him as soon as
possible an answer. Then, before Idelfonso left them, he said, "If you
want to tell Gra�a Maria about us, you can tell her without any problem,
seeing how she thinks about this matter..."

"I was about asking you leave, but was hesitant. You know, between Gra�a
and me there have never been secrets, but if you ask me, even though
reluctantly I would have kept it secret. Therefore, thank you, my dear
brother! Ah, and... I always loved you, you know it, and I also always
admired you. Well, I want you to know that my love and my admiration for
you did absolutely not change."

The two brothers embraced, then Idelfonso left the room.

"Afonso, we have been lucky, haven't we?"

"Yes, my love."

"But we have to be more cautious, in the future."

"Yes, I agree. But at least in these days, here, as now Idelfonso and
Gra�a know about us, you can also come here any time we want and, I
think, even spend the night with me..."

Then Paulo and his man discussed about Idelfonso's proposal to move to
Rio de Janeiro. They valued together all the pros and cons, very
carefully, and at the end agreed that Idelfonso vision of things was
right and reasonable; they went therefore to see the place together with
Idelfonso and Gra�a.

The complex was developing on three floors in an elegant corner building
between two streets converging to a square, therefore with three
external sides. On the ground floor and on the front fa�ade there were
three small gates, and on the central fa�ade looking towards the square,
there was the entrance to the surgery that, possibly with some pomp, was
called "Clinic". The surgery was composed of a wide entrance hall that
was used also as waiting room and that opened on three rooms, the
doctor's private studio in the centre, and two surgeries, one at each
side, to whom it was possible to enter by two doors, one toward the
doctor's studio and the other toward the waiting room. On the back there
was a narrow stairway that lead to the upper two floors, as well as a
door leading to a depot for the coaches and the horses.

On the third fa�ade there was a single nice gate with a beautiful
stairway leading to the first floor, where was the doctor's apartment.
This was composed by a saloon, a lounge, two bedrooms and a library, and
had at its back the kitchen and all the other needed service rooms, and
where led the service stairway leading down to the surgery and up to the
second floor.

The second floor was entirely used for the servants, and was composed of
five decorous small rooms, a dining room and another kitchen. It was
reached by the back service stairway through a small door adjacent to
the depot, that opened on the left street.

"It is really beautiful, but even too big for us!" Afonso exclaimed.

"I don't think so, dear brother in law. You will have many clients,
therefore you would need a good staff - at least two assistants in the
clinic, moreover cleaning staff, a cook, not less than a house-maid,
possibly also a coachman... I think therefore that this place is just
suitable. Just think that the doctor who lived here with his family
found it even somewhat small, I've heard, insufficient for his needs..."

"Anyway the price seems rather high..." Afonso still objected.

"Oh no, not for Rio standards, anyway, and not for such a central
place." Idelfonso said." Anyway, if you had some problems of cash, my
wife and I would be more than happy to give you a hand. I have no
problems of money, my dear brother. And if, knowing you, you would not
accept my money as a gift, you two can easily and in a short give it
back to me, thanks to what you are going to earn."

Afonso appreciated very much, besides the offer, the fact that Idelfonso
said "you two can give it back", so including also Paulo in the
business, with extreme naturalness.

"You are really tempting us, isn't it so, Paulo?" Afonso so said with a
smile.

The boy nodded, joyfully.

Gra�a Maria, as the practical woman she was, said, "Listen, you two will
of course live at the first floor, officially in the two bedrooms even
though, I guess, you will use just one of them. This means that who will
do the cleaning and work in your apartment has to be a trusted person,
one who wouldn't go around gossiping. I therefore think, and I already
discussed it with my husband, that we can ask Jo�o and Tom� to come to
work for you and to live here, together, in the bigger of the five room
at the second floor. Jo�o is a skilled cook and Tom� can be your valet
and coachman.

"You have also to hire two nurses, better if women, just to have also
the gentle sex around this house, a white and a mulatto one. So Paulo
can be your assistant and take care of the most simple cases. You will
moreover need somebody who cleans the clinic floor and the servants
floor, as Tom� will clean your apartment, and this one could be either a
man or a woman, possibly a black one. You will also need a cook for the
servants, and a washer and linen maid for the clinic and your personal
linen, and they too can help for the cleaning. As you see, giving to the
other servants the remaining four smaller rooms at the last floor, this
house will be just fitting..."

"You really thought of everything, dear sister in law..." Afonso said
with a smile. But do you really think that, besides supporting ourselves
and paying back our debt with you, Idelfonso and Gra�a, we could pay a
salary to six more people?"

"I don't have the lesser doubt about it. In a very short time you will
earn much more money than you would have to spend. I also think to
publish on my newspaper some short articles to announce the next opening
of your new clinic... and you will see that soon the clients will come
in crowds..." Idelfonso said.

So Afonso and Paulo went to sign the contract to buy the building with
the clinic and the apartments, and all the medical equipment and
furniture. Afonso anyway decided to change their apartment's furnishing
and with Paulo went to choose the new furniture, the wallpapers, the
curtain and all they needed to change it in an ambience they liked.

Jo�o and Tom� were really glad to go to work for Afonso and Paulo,
especially when Gra�a Maria explained that they also were lovers,
exactly like them.

When they finally installed themselves in their new house, Afonso and
Paulo, the first night withdrew in their bedroom. They undressed and at
once started to make love on the wide and beautiful bed covered by an
elegant canopy.

"Are you happy my love?" Afonso asked Paulo.

"How could I not be, here in your arms, having around us good and kind
people, and with an enchanting future in front of us?"

"I too am happy, happy mainly to have you, my sweet Paulo. Yes, life is
undoubtedly generous to us. But with you I would be happy even if we had
to live in a hovel, and if we did beg for our bread!"

In the upper floor, another couple was immersed in tender effusions, at
the light of a lantern hanging from a hook on the wall, near the bed -
Jo�o and Tom�.

All of a sudden Jo�o asked, "Do you think that our masters, downstairs,
are making love exactly as we are?"

"If exactly as we are or in a different way, I can't say. But I am
almost certain that they too are making love. Didn't you notice, during
the supper, with what desire they were going on to look, to smile at
each other?"

"Yes, they were beautiful to be looked at... and it's evident that our
masters love and desire each other at least as we love each other... But
now take me, my beautiful young bull! You know how to make me happy..."

With a wide smile, Tom� pushed his beautiful strong and hard pole
between the little buttocks of his lover, found the hole that was
already palpitating in await, sank in it with a long pleasure sigh and
started to pump inside it with virile vigour. Meanwhile their mouths
thirsty with love were searching each other, their hands were roaming on
the lover's body, teasing it on the spots most sensitive to the loving
caresses. Jo�o was jolting in ecstasy under the pushes of his lover,
moaning in a low voice with each of his strokes and following it with
all his body movements.

Meanwhile on the first floor also Afonso and Paulo, in their beautiful
and elegant bedroom, lit by four two branched chandeliers, were engaging
in a merry love joust and also Afonso was pumping with virile tenderness
inside his adored boy who was looking at him with luminous eyes filled
with love and shining with pleasure.

Their mouths united in a deep, passionate and tender kiss, in an
unconscious attempt to melt in one being, to really become one only
flesh, as their souls were one only soul.

"Do you know that I will never get tired feeling you so, all inside me?"
Paulo whispered gently rubbing the turgid nipples on the beautiful,
hairless and strong chest of his man.

"And I neither will get tired uniting with you, my prince charming! And
do you know that you become even more beautiful while I make you mine,
like in this moment? My god, how much do I love you, my sweet Paulo!"

"I will never get tired hearing you say you love me... and I will never
get tired telling you I love you!"

"Neither I, neither I..." Afonso whispered going on to move back and
forth in the warm, soft and tight love channel of his lover.

"Do you think that also our Jo�o and Tom�, upstairs, are making love in
this moment?"

"I really think so... they are two dear boys, young and full of energy,
and they are in love as we are, aren't they? They are also really
beautiful..."

"Never beautiful as we are, Afonso! We are the most beautiful couple in
the world... I know it!" Paulo sighed, enjoying their passionate and
long union.

Both the couples went on making love for a good time, never tired to
show each other with their entire bodies the intensity and beauty of the
love binding them, and only in the deep of the night, who would look at
the house from the square, would see finally cease to shine first the
light behind a window at the first floor, and not longer later, the
other fainter light coming from a window at the second floor.

The two couples, finally happily sated, were lying each in the darkness
of their rooms, still tenderly embraced, exchanging the last sweet love
words, until the sleep caught them and they slept in a bliss, in the
silence of the capital city night.

Soon the clinic got many illustrious and rich clients, as Idelfonso
foresaw. Afonso was really a valiant doctor, his staff was skilled, good
and had agreeable manners, including the two maid-nurses who sided their
work. Paulo, although not graduated as a doctor, became a skilled
assistant and it was practically him who managed the clinic, especially
for its organization and administration side, with skill and competence.

Tom� became, tacitly, a kind of servant chief and he too directed, with
skill and capacity, both the house and the servants.

First Paulo, then also Tom�, started to take to the clinic, in the
evenings after it was closed, poor people they had known or met and who
didn't have the means to pay a doctor. Afonso and Paulo healed them for
free or for just a few coins. Slowly the voice spread and gradually
increased the number of the poor people turning to them for the cares,
mainly humble workers, poor immigrants and also former slaves.

Then Afonso thought to make a change, to be able to care in a more
decent way also of those people. The depot was way too wide for their
needs, in fact there was the place for six stalls for the horses and
room for two coaches, but they had just two saddle horses and one
draught horse for their gig. Therefore in the half of the space they
made build a waiting room and a surgery for those outcast people, who
could enter by the small door that was at the side of the depot's gate.

As Idelfonso came to know about this good deed, made some small articles
appear on the Gazeta, so some benefactors and philanthropists started to
send money grants to support them, so that Afonso and Paulo could soon
hire two new servants to whom they taught to work as nurses. Amongst
their benefactors, besides Idelfonso and Gra�a, there was also their
uncle, the viscount de Itabora", who was the president of the Banco do
Brazil, and also an influential politician.

From the early morning to half afternoon the coming and going of the
patients, both at the main entrance of the clinic for the paying
clients, and at the lateral entrance for the not paying ones, was almost
unceasing. From the half afternoon to evening, Afonso and Paulo, using
their saddle horses, went to do the house visits.

Paulo and Afonso cared with the same attention end application all their
patients, be they paying or not. The fact that they kept them separated
came only by the fact that on one side several of the poor would feel
intimidated if they had to sit and wait near rich people and would have
ceased going to the clinic, and also some of the rich would have felt
ill at ease, some even offended, to have to sit and wait at the side of
a poor and even to queue and wait to be received after one of them.

But Paulo and Afonso, with the help of their four nurses, were devoting
their time and their care to all the patients in the same way. Making
them enter and go out from different doors, and having them wait in
different rooms, they solved all the problems. If a rich person had to
wait before being visited, he didn't know if it was because the doctor
was busy with another rich person or with a poor one, he therefore
waited without losing is patience.

Brazilian society in those years was in evolution, the abolitionists and
the open-minded and modern people, supported also by Dom Pedro II, were
trying to gradually get to the total elimination of slavery. It was just
passed a law according which the slaves' children could not be
considered for that as slaves, therefore they didn't belong any more to
their parent' masters. This law had been fiercely opposed by almost all
the great fazendeiros, as, having already been abolished the slave trade
from Africa, with this new law gradually there would not be any more
slaves to work in their plantations.

Therefore amongst the owners of the great plantations was growing the
discontent and more and more numerous were, amongst them, those who
started to declare themselves republicans, thinking that, eliminating
the throne, they could get the power, made their own laws and so granted
the continuity of the slavery in their land, therefore in their
fazendas. Amongst the more heated convert to the republican ideas, was
Paulo's natural father, the baron Bas"lio da Cunha Vargas of Curitiba,
who with this last law saw totally thwarted also his last project to
start  slave breeding.

About Eucl"des Quadros Dutra, Manoel's benefactor, and his sons Nicolau
and Getulio, the situation was rather variegated - Getulio, the younger
son, was fiercely republican and in favour of slavery, Nicolau was of
moderate republican tendency, but absolutely an abolitionist. Their
father Eucl"des was instead a supporter of the Emperor and of his
politics against slavery. This often provoked heated and interminable
arguments, especially when they were at the table all three together.

The debate was heated all over the land and in all social classes. The
political situation was unsettled and uncertain. Who was against slavery
also sustained that in order to get the needed manpower it would be
enough to open the borders to immigration from Europe, and even
encourage it. But several influential men, mainly the members of the
aristocracy, were in great part against this, because they were afraid
that a massive immigration would pervert the nature of their culture and
of their Portuguese ethnicity - in spite of the fact that the greater
part of them had totally agreed when it was decided to declare their
independence from the Portuguese crown, many of the Creoles were
feeling, in the depths of their hearts, still Portuguese...

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CONTINUES IN CHAPTER 16

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