She played the lady
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em quanto sinhá Malvina estava ahi, ella andava de estadão na sala, agora...
while mistress Malvina was here, she went about in grand style in the parlour; now...'
The unfinished 'now...' does the sneering — the pleasure of watching the favourite brought low. Isaura's old place in the parlour, beside her mistress, is recast as putting on airs; the senzala's envy of the house-slave surfaces, and Rosa is waiting to sharpen it.
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