'Not from the slaves' pot'
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— Tem razão; tambem uma rapariga civilisadona e mimosa como você não deve comer do caldeirão dos escravos.
— You're right; besides, a fine civilized and dainty girl like you shouldn't eat from the slaves' cauldron.
Rosa's sarcasm turns Isaura's refusal of the meal into fresh mockery. The augmentative 'civilisadona' — laid on thick, oh-so-civilized — and 'mimosa,' pampered, paint Isaura as too refined for the 'caldeirão dos escravos,' the common slaves' pot. She uses Isaura's very grief as proof of the airs she keeps accusing her of.
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