'That impostor'
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ha muito tempo, que eu estou vendo essa impostora, que diante da sinhá se faz toda simploria,
for a long time now I've been watching that impostor, who before the missus plays all innocent,
Rosa poses as a long-time eyewitness — 'ha muito tempo que eu estou vendo essa impostora' — and brands Isaura an 'impostora' who 'se faz toda simploria,' puts on a show of innocence before the mistress. The accusation is a mirror: it is Rosa, not Isaura, who performs and deceives. She projects her own duplicity onto her victim, which is what makes the lie so fluent.
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