Malicious and vengeful
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e como era maligna e vingativa, não podendo vingar-se de seo senhor,
and, being malicious and vengeful, unable to avenge herself on her master,
The logic of powerlessness. Rosa cannot strike the one who wronged her — Leôncio is her owner, untouchable — so the injury has to go somewhere, and it flows downhill to the only person weaker or more exposed than herself. It is the cruelty of the oppressed, which slavery manufactures as surely as it manufactures the master's.
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