She never left the fazenda.

Brought up in pure and healthy surroundings, in the midst of the beauteous nature of the tropics, the education given to her by her mother, and the instruction received by her from her father, were ample.

What more could she have learned in a convent at Manaos or Belem?
Where would she have found better examples of the domestic virtues?
Would her mind and feelings have been more delicately formed away from her home?
If it was ordained that she was not to succeed her mother in the management of the fazenda, she was equal to any other position to which she might be called.
With Benito it was another thing.

His father very wisely wished him to receive as solid and complete an education as could then be obtained in the large towns of Brazil.

There was nothing which the rich fazender refused his son.