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These stories, quips, anecdotes, or offhand comments, Mike threshed for facts, several of which were of sufficient accuracy to have earned him, on two occasions, polite warnings from, as they put it, “Friends of the Big Guy.”
Mike cribaba esas historias, ocurrencias, anécdotas y comentarios en busca de hechos, varios de los cuales fueron lo bastante acertados como para valerle un par de advertencias educadas de, como solía decirse, «los amigos del Pez Gordo».
He was not ungracious, but his manner was jaded and wistful, even unimpressed—a practice that, though not a strategy in any real sense, tended to win him a great deal of respect, and earn him a place among the inheritors of land and fortune, quite as if he had set out to end up there.
No es que fuera descortés, pero tenía un aire hastiado y meditabundo, incluso indiferente…, actitud que, aunque no pueda decirse que fuese una estrategia en sentido estricto, tendía a granjearle mucho respeto y a valerle un lugar entre los herederos de tierras y fortunas, casi como si se hubiese propuesto terminar ahí.
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