'Pockets always jingling'
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e o que mais é,— acrescentou batendo com a mão na algibeira,— com as algibeiras sempre a tinir.
and what's more, he added, tapping his hand on his pocket, with my pockets always jingling.
The crowning boast, and the gesture that goes with it: he slaps his pocket to make the coins 'tinir,' chink, jingle. Money is the last item in his catalogue of charms, and a page with coins to jingle is a man of small means playing rich. The comedy is affectionate but exact — André's whole appeal is surface and sound.
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