Refined as any white girl
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que com ser o que é, bonita e civilisada como qualquer moça branca, não é capaz de fazer pouco caso de ninguem?..
'who, being what she is, pretty and refined as any white girl, is incapable of scorning anyone?..'
The defense reaches for the same yardstick the whole book struggles with — 'refined as any white girl.' Even Isaura's champion measures her worth against whiteness. Guimarães lets the compliment reveal the cage: in this world the highest praise for a mulatta is that she is indistinguishable from the people who own her.
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