'The malicious girl'
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— dizia-lhe a maliciosa rapariga.
the malicious girl would say to her.
The narrator interrupts the speech to fix its source and character: 'a maliciosa rapariga,' the malicious girl. There is no ambiguity about Rosa's intent — the word 'maliciosa' is the author's own judgement, ensuring the reader hears her insinuations as calculated harm and not candour, however plausibly Malvina takes them.
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