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Updated: May 11, 2025
In this situation Padre Florentino was asking himself what line of conduct he should pursue when the Civil Guard came to arrest Simoun. His condition would not permit his removal, much less a long journey but the telegram said alive or dead.
And it oppresses them to conceive things which they are powerless to tell; then their embarrassed looks return absent-mindedly to the two beautiful, big oxen: "They are mine, you know," says Florentino. "I was married two years ago. My wife works. And, by working we are beginning to get along. Oh!" he adds, with naive pride, "I have another pair of oxen like these at the house."
In his sad and serious features was to be read the serenity of a soul fortified by study and meditation, perhaps tried out by deep moral suffering. This priest was Padre Florentino, Isagani's uncle, and his story is easily told.
"Every stranger now entering the Lomas is rigorously examined, and you could not possibly escape arrest if you went there. Remain with us, senor; it is a poor house, but we are well disposed towards you. To-morrow Santos shall go with a letter from you to Don Florentino, who is always ready to serve us, and he will do what you wish without seeking you."
Such wearisome days they proved to me, and so anxious was I getting about Paquita away in Montevideo, that I was more than once on the point of giving up waiting for the passport, which Don Florentino had promised to get for me, and boldly venture forth without even that fig-leaf into the open. Demetria's prudent counsels, however, prevailed, so that my departure was put off from day to day.
But his look, like that of Florentino, has turned from Itchoua. A terror comes to him of this man, of this imperious and cold influence, so completely felt already; an entire soft and refined side of his nature is awakened, made disquiet and in revolt. Silence has followed the tale, and Itchoua, discontented with the effect of it, proposes a song in order to change the course of ideas.
Cervinus had been archbishop of Florence and was afterwards raised from the cardinalate to the pontificate under the title of Marcellus II. This globe represents the western sea in the same form as it is on the Verrazano map, and contains a legend on the country lying between the isthmus and Cape Breton, in these words: "Verrazana sive Nova Gallia a Verrazano Florentino Comperta anno sal.
Ramuntcho, who had slept for a few hours, in a bad, tired sleep, in a small room of the new house of his friend Florentino, at Ururbil, awakened as the day dawned. The night, a night of tempest everywhere, a black and troubled night, had been disastrous for the smugglers.
No doubt was entertained by Padre Florentino that the Spaniard wanted was the jeweler Simoun, who had arrived mysteriously, himself carrying the jewel-chest, bleeding, morose, and exhausted.
You can safely remain here for a few days, for in this sad house we have no visitors." I told her that, acting on Santa Coloma's advice, given to me before the fight, I was going on to the Lomas de Rocha to see a person named Florentino Blanco in that place, who would probably be able to procure me a passport from Montevideo. "How fortunate it is that you have told me this!" she replied.
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