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So alike were they, and so identical in their negligence of dress and their total unconsciousness of, or indifference to, convention, that the two men, walking side by side, might well have been taken for brothers.
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Beveridge illustrates how Marshall and Lincoln's disregard for convention made them appear as brothers, emphasizing their close connection.
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