As a child, Mario Pimentel was the lankiest, most soft-spoken (even a tad taciturn) and well-behaved of all Pimentels - do Cabouco, that is. Overall, of course, he still had ways to go to be as gentle and well-mannered as the son from the main Pimentel house, in Rosario da Lagoa - Joao Jacinto, my father. But I will always give Caesar his laurels: Mario was the closest one after Dad. He never complained about a thing, made no trouble and was ever-reliable; all attributes my dear Dad had, in spades (and retains now - in Heaven.)
There are two very good reasons to like Mario The Hero: evidently his Patriotic side is exemplary. He fought the good fight for his country - �pa, Viva Portugal! - and when his nation's colonial needs were abandoned, he became one of the A�ores Finest, keeping its streets safe and clean from crime! One cannot be more devoted than this.
The second reason is his intelligence! Santo Augustino said it: ignorance is a sin! And Mario is well-educated enough to be clear on that front. Plus, his natural born wits are admirable: he did, after all, renounce the bogus "promise" that Canada offered and chose to return to his native land after a very brief stay in the "inferno do inverno" wonderland that Quebec is several months a year... Unlike his brothers and sister, he went back and continues to enjoy the good weather and, now, the improved economical atmosphere on the island of his birth - to this day. That is smart.
That is what his younger brother Domingos should have done too, when he still had time.
As for the other siblings: they fear not the cold, or so it would seem...