Poorly but neatly dressed
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Trajava pobremente, mas com muito alinho e limpeza,
He dressed poorly, but with much neatness and cleanliness,
Poverty worn with dignity — the poor but scrupulously clean dress that marks self-respect. Guimarães measures a man not by his means but by his care, and Miguel's neatness is the outward sign of the inward order the story keeps praising.
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