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N THAT little white house, — far away, lives a sad old woman, over seventy years old. Poor thing! She's at the end of her life, and she's shivering and catatonic, without a single tooth in her mouth — downcast and melancholy... Everyone pities her: — How sad to live alone in the middle of the woods...

Well, they're wrong. The old woman lives happily and contentedly, thanks to a little granddaughter, orphaned by her father and mother, who has lived there since she was born. She's a dark-haired girl with eyes as black as two jabuticabas grapes — and as playful as you can imagine! Her name is Lucia, but nobody calls her that. She has a nickname. Yayá? Nenê? Maricota? Not at all. Her name is "Narizinho Rebitado" (Little Turned Up Nose) — no need to say why. In addition to Lucia, there is Aunt Anastacia, an excellent