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Yeyeng appeared fancifully dressed, with the "Da usté su permiso?" and Carvajal was answering her, "Pase usté adelante," when two soldiers of the Civil Guard went up to Don Filipo and ordered him to stop the performance. "Why?" asked the teniente-mayor in surprise. "Because the alferez and his wife have been fighting and can't sleep."
And turning to the young women and changing his tone, he said: "Excuse me; I have forgotten an appointment. I will return to accompany you home." "Stay!" said Sinang. "Yeyeng is going to dance in the 'La Calandria. She dances divinely." "I cannot, my little friend, but I will certainly return." The murmurs increased.
"Are we still in the Dark Ages? So " He approached the young women and said with a change of tone, "Excuse me, I've forgotten an engagement. I'll be back to see you home." "Stay!" Sinang said to him. "Yeyeng is going to dance La Calandria. She dances divinely." "I can't, little friend, but I'll be back." The uproar increased.
While Yeyeng, dressed in the style of the lower class of Madrid, was coming on the stage with the remark: "Da Usté su permiso?" "And what for?" asked he, surprised at the request. "Because the alferez and his Señora have been fighting and they cannot sleep."
It was a poor musician. The stage was filled with the players and people of the town and they were all talking at the same time. There was Chananay, dressed in the costume of Leonor in the "Trovador," talking in corrupted Spanish with Ratia, who was in a school teacher's costume. There too, was Yeyeng, dressed in a silk wrapper, talking with the Prince Villardo.
Here Marianito, Chananay, Balbino, Ratia, Carvajal, Yeyeng, Liceria and the others will sing and dance. The Filipino loves the theatre, and always attends dramatic productions with a great deal of pleasure.
There was Chananay dressed as Leonor in Il Trovatore, talking in the language of the markets to Ratia in the costume of a schoolmaster; Yeyeng, wrapped in a silk shawl, was clinging to the Prince Villardo; while Balbino and the Moros were exerting themselves to console the more or less injured musicians. Several Spaniards went from group to group haranguing every one they met.
There on the plaza a platform has been erected, the scenery being of bamboo, nipa, and wood; there the Tondo comedians will perform wonders and compete with the gods in improbable miracles, there will sing and dance Marianito, Chananay, Balbino, Ratia, Carvajal, Yeyeng, Liceria, etc.
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