The speech of a polished man
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Tinha o trato e a linguagem de um homem polido, e de accurada educação.
He had the bearing and speech of a polished man, of careful education.
The narrator underlines it: manners and language betray a careful upbringing. Miguel's cultivation is quietly subversive in a slave society — the enslaved girl's father is the most refined man in the room, more so than his social 'betters.'
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