Playing the great lady
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Deo agora em namorar os moços brancos, e como o pae diz que ha-de forrar ella, pensa que e uma grande senhora.
'She's taken now to flirting with the white young men, and since her father says he'll free her, she thinks she's a great lady.'
Rosa twists every fact into an accusation: the men who harass Isaura become men she 'flirts with'; her father's hope of freeing her becomes proof of vanity. It is the oldest slander — blaming the victim for the desire aimed at her — and Rosa, herself Leôncio's cast-off, knows exactly how to wound with it.
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