The group was accompanied by a small, well-rehearsed orchestra of guitars and flutes the four-string guitar was played by Carlinhos Mascarenhas, a tall, skinny character famous in the whorehouses-ah, a divine player. He did not belong to the group-he had just joined it, in the company of four of his friends, all masquerading as bahianas, and they had come from a bar on Cabeca, where the whiskey flowed like water at the expense of one Moyses Alves, a cacao planter, rich and open-handed. Vadinho, Dona Flor's first husband, died one Sunday of Carnival, in the morning, when, dressed up like a Bahian woman, he was dancing the samba, with the greatest enthusiasm, in the Dois de Julho Square, not far from his house.
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