Juliana, pretty and spirited
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Juliana era uma mulata bonita e sacudida; era da cor desta Rosa, mas inda mais bonita e mais bem feita....
Juliana was a pretty, spirited mulatta; she was Rosa's colour, but even prettier and better made...
The comparison to Rosa is pointed — Juliana was Rosa's very colour, only lovelier — and it quietly explains Rosa's malice: she is looking at the kind of beauty that got a woman destroyed, and resenting the girl who has it now. Guimarães ties the two rivals to the dead mother in a single sentence.
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