'The handsome young gentlemen'
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— Então a senhora quer só ouvir as finezas dos moços bonitos lá na sala!...
— So the lady wants to hear only the sweet nothings of the handsome young gentlemen up in the parlour!...
Rejected, André turns to sarcasm — 'a senhora,' the lady, spat like Rosa's mock-honorific. He accuses her of preferring the 'finezas,' the gallantries, of the white 'moços bonitos' in the great house. It is the same jealous logic as Rosa's: her refusal must mean she holds herself above him, when in truth she wants none of them.
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