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While the shouting is going on and men are jingling money in their hands; while the people are going down in their pockets for the last cuarto, or, if that is wanting, pledging their word, promising to sell their carabao, or their next harvest, two young men, apparently brothers, follow the gamblers with envious eyes.
This is the work of Fray Alonso de Benavides, on New Mexico, first published in 1630 under the misleading title of Memorial que Fray Juan de Santander de la Orden de San Francisco, Comisario General de Indias, presenta a la Magestad Catolica del Rey don Felipe cuarto nuestro Señor, etc., Madrid, 1630.
A sad termination for such a welcome beginning, for the two unhappy creatures, Juan and Maria, had neither maravedi nor cuarto in the money box! "In what way," conjectured she inwardly, "in what way can I raise five hundred maravedis to be quits with the Moor who will give back his sight to my poor old father? All! I have it.
These data, which are obtained from the manufacturers, are probably exaggerated, but they are in the main well founded; and the traveller in the Philippines often has the opportunity of observing similar anomalies. For example, in Daet, North Camarines, I bought six coconuts for one cuarto, at the rate of nine hundred and sixty for one dollar, the common price there.
"Do you see?" said Bruno, with indignation, to his brother, "if you had taken my advice to-day, we would have had one hundred pesos. On your account we are without a cuarto." Tarsilo did not reply, but, with wide-open eyes, looked around him as if in search of some one. "There he is talking with Pedro," added Bruno. "He is giving him money what a lot of money!"
DON EDUARDO. No será indigestión a buen seguro; pero, mujer, ¿qué has hecho en todo este tiempo? ¿Cómo tienes todavía así el cuarto? Vaya, que no es mala porquería. DOÑA MATILDE. Yo ... si ... ay, Eduardo, ¿cómo te puedes enfadar tanto conmigo? DON EDUARDO. No, Matilde mía, yo no me enfado contigo ... ¿cómo había yo de enfadarme contigo?
Don Tiburcio had come to the Philippines as a petty official in the Customs, but such had been his bad luck that, besides suffering severely from seasickness and breaking a leg during the voyage, he had been dismissed within a fortnight, just at the time when he found himself without a cuarto.
Rafael Palma Senador por el Cuarto Distrito En favor del proyecto de Ley No. 23 del Senado en las sesiones celebradas por dicho cuerpo en los días 22 y 25 de noviembre de 1919 Manila Bureau of Printing 1919 Sr.
The two soldiers exchanged significant glances. "All right!" exclaimed one of them. "Give us the money and we'll leave you alone." "Sir," begged the unfortunate woman, "my sons wouldn't steal even though they were starving, for we are used to that kind of suffering. Basilio didn't bring me a single cuarto. Search the whole house and if you find even a real, do with us what you will.
Then Roblez rose to go to the cuartel or barracks, where he had his place of sleeping and abode, bidding buena noche to his colonel. The latter also bethought him of bed, and, taking a lamp from the table, commenced moving towards his cuarto de camara.
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