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Updated: May 15, 2025
The girl writhed, and uttered a low whimpering, but no scream escaped her lips. As for the old woman, she remained quite motionless no sign told that she suffered! When ten lashes each had been administered, a voice from the centre of the Plaza cried out "Basta por la nina!" The crowd echoed this; and he, whose office it was to flog the younger female, rolled up his cuarto and desisted.
Good-bye to the hope of a horse for the young gentleman. Cavalier, I grow desperate: hold your tongue, for God's sake! for I can talk no more." On hearing this history I no longer wondered that the receiver- general was eager to save a cuarto in the purchase of the oil for the gaspacho of himself and family of eleven daughters, one son, and a domestic.
"If my project were accepted " Don Custodio ventured to remark, as if talking to himself. "For the construction of schoolhouses?" "It's simple, practical, economical, and, like all my projects, derived from long experience and knowledge of the country. The towns would have schools without costing the government a cuarto." "That's easy," observed the secretary sarcastically.
In consequence of this scarcity, the natives are in the habit of employing cigars as money, to represent the smaller coins; and all over the Philippines a cigar is actually the most important circulating medium, each representing a cuarto.
I was acquainted with a gentleman, who, having several idle vessels suitable for this carrying trade, was of course most anxious to get the contract, to give employment to his ships; and having found out who the other contractors for it were, and all of them happening to be cautious men, not likely to offer for it at a losing price, he resolved to play a bold game, and made his tender for the conveyance of it out in some such words as these: "I offer freight for the tobacco, at one cuarto less than any body else will take it at," and signed his name; a cuarto being the very smallest copper coin current at Manilla.
The warriors no longer utter their dread cry. Their soldier-enemies are destroyed. Every cuarto has been cleared of its inmates, who lie in bleeding heaps over the patio and by the doors. No quarter has been given. All have been killed on the spot. No not all. There are two who survive two whose lives have been spared. Vizcarra and Roblado yet live!
The lady once more returned to the azotea once more took up the bandolon; but after a few touches of the strings, laid it down, and again rose to her feet. Again she soliloquised. "Carrambo! it is very strange! neither in my chamber the sala, the cuarto, the azotea, the garden! where can it be? O Dios! if it should fall into the hands of papa!
By the poor oil for lighting is rarely used; but torches of resin, which last a couple of days, are bought in the market for half a cuarto. A piece of guinára, costing 1 real, gives two shifts; the coarsest patadíon costs 3 reals; a cloth, at the highest, 1 real; and a comb, 2 cuartos; making altogether 4 reals, 12 cuartos.
The next moment an Indian boy appeared upon the azotea, and taking off his hat approached the padre with an air of reverence. "You will guide the capitan through the path in the chapparal to the hunters' hut." "Si, Senor." "Don't tell any one you have done so." "No, Senor." "If you do you shall catch the `cuarto. Vaya!"
MARQUESA. ¿Vive en este cuarto una mujer que lava encajes?... Pero ¿qué ven mis ojos? ¡Matilde! DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Clementina! MARQUESA. ¡Tú aquí! DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Oh! ¡qué gusto tengo en verte! MARQUESA. ¡Y yo!... Pero ¿qué haces en este desván? DOÑA MATILDE. Ya te diré ... es que ... ¿y tú, estás todavía en las Salesas?
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