Puffed-up and impudent
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que já vimos em companhia do feitor, e que mui ancho, empertigado e petulante se foi collocar defronte de Isaura.
whom we already saw in the overseer's company, and who, very puffed-up, strutting and impudent, went and planted himself in front of Isaura.
Three quick adjectives sketch him whole: 'ancho' (swollen with self-importance), 'empertigado' (bolt-upright, strutting), 'petulante' (insolent). André is comic where Leôncio is sinister — a vain little dandy in his page's livery — but his planting himself 'defronte de Isaura,' squarely in her way, is the same claim the masters make: her space and her attention are his to take.
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