A wallet from his coat
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tirando da algibeira de seo largo sobretudo uma carteira, que apresentou a Leoncio;
drawing from the pocket of his broad overcoat a wallet, which he presented to Leôncio;
The gesture the whole chapter has been moving toward: the poor man's wallet, saved coin by coin, held out to the master. Guimarães lingers on the plain broad coat — hard-won respectability — against the opulence of the salon.
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