One girl stood out
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Entre estas ultimas distinguia-se uma rapariguinha a mais faceira e gentil que se pode imaginar nesse genero.
Among these last one young girl stood out — the pertest and prettiest of her kind imaginable.
The chapter's second portrait begins — and it is built in the same register as Isaura's, beauty catalogued point by point. Guimarães is setting up a rival: the girl who stands out here is Rosa, and the loving inventory is a trap, because the narrator will turn cold about her 'kind' by the paragraph's end.
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