Received with affability
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Este, que ainda o não conhecia, recebeo-o com affabilidade.
The latter, who did not yet know him, received him with affability.
A small, cold irony: Leôncio does not recognize the man at his door and so greets him graciously — the courtesy is spent on a stranger he is about to wound. Guimarães lets the reader, who already knows this is Miguel, feel the trap the scene is walking into.
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