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Updated: May 24, 2025
As a sign that the soldier had won his lady-love, Filippa at last consented that he should return the handkerchief, crown her proudly with it on her cloud of thick hair, and waltz away with her triumphantly. It was a pretty tableau. The orchestra broke out in loud and full harmony, with now and then a wild Moro yell or shout, from the flutes and drums. How we applauded!
The whole of these necessaries you will bring back to that house which you see in the valley, together with a proper supply of ready money, within three hours of this. Now be off." It was his turn to salute me now, and for him to say, "Servo suo." I found Belviso helping Filippa, the daughter of the house, to milk the goats, and when he had done, drew him apart and told him my news.
Thin strips of it are polished, and used to cover the woodwork of your piano and bureau at home." "And this other wonderful, new tree?" I asked. "That is the molave. It is so hard that sea worms and white ants cannot bore into it. So it is good for boats, wharves, and frames for big buildings," replied the Padre. "Here is a pretty tree," remarked Filippa.
"If you will remain in our sunnier Philippines, I'll tell you about plants and flowers and fruits, that you have never even heard about," said sunny little Filippa, who herself was as beautiful as a flower, and as soft to touch as a fruit. "Tell about our indigo," suggested her brother Fil.
Indeed, to speak more precisely, that whereof I have to tell should not be called cozenage; nay, it should rather be styled a just requital; for that, albeit a woman should still be virtuous and guard her chastity as her life nor on any account suffer herself be persuaded to sully it, yet, seeing that, by reason of our frailty, this is not always possible as fully as should be, I affirm that she who consenteth to her own dishonour for a price is worthy of the fire, whereas she who yieldeth for Love's sake, knowing his exceeding great puissance, meriteth forgiveness from a judge not too severe, even as, a few days agone, Filostrato showed it to have been observed towards Madam Filippa at Prato.
What while this statute was in force, it befell that a noble and beautiful lady, by name Madam Filippa, who was of a singularly amorous complexion, was one night found by Rinaldo de' Pugliesi her husband, in her own chamber in the arms of Lazzerino de' Guazzagliotri, a noble and handsome youth of that city, whom she loved even as herself.
We put a stopper into one joint of a hollowed bamboo, and use it for a bottle. The pliant bamboo root we make into whips. We make bridges, fences, window blinds, furniture, and carriages out of bamboo. We even make blow guns and shoot our arrows at birds, through the bamboo stalk." "There are one hundred kinds of bamboo, and a thousand uses for the plant," added Filippa.
Then another hush Filippa, dressed in silver spangle, and Fil, dressed in scarlet and gold, suddenly rushed from opposite sides of the hall to do the love-dance, in which the brave soldier woos and wins his sweetheart. They came near each other. She seemed to be coy; to quarrel sometimes; to beg; to promise. They whirled about; they executed steps; they snapped castanets.
"Thank you all;" I exclaimed, "now I will behold a whole tropical story of geography and commerce, every time I look into a grocer's window at home." "I am sure you do not know what abacá is," laughed Filippa. "I guess from its name that it may be a cousin of tobacco; it sounds like it: abacá, tobacco." "Names are sometimes misleading," replied the Padre.
The winds arise and sweep all one way, for a time. Then comes the black rain. The heavy typhoon soon begins to howl and to turn in a circle for two or three days. The wheeling storm moves from place to place, and finally dies down at sea." Filippa inquired: "Why is such a circular storm of the Oriental tropics, called a typhoon?"
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