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Updated: July 5, 2025
At the appearance of Ibarra, Linares turned pale and Maria Clara's cheeks flushed crimson. She tried to rise, but strength failed her, so she dropped her eyes and let the fan fall. An embarrassed silence prevailed for a few moments. Ibarra was then able to move forward and murmur tremblingly, "I've just got back and have come immediately to see you. I find you better than I had thought I should."
"Get out of here!" cried Padre Salvi nervously. "I would like to see Padre Damaso." "Padre Damaso is busy. Get out of here!" again ordered the curate imperiously. Lucas went down the stairway muttering, "He's another of them as he doesn't pay well the one who pays best!" At the sound of the curate's voice all had hurried to the spot, including Padre Damaso, Capitan Tiago, and Linares.
The orchestra continued playing gay waltzes. The laughter and the hum of conversation could be heard in her bedroom. A number of times her family, Aunt Isabel, Doña Victorina, and even Linares, knocked at her door, but Maria Clara did not move. There was a rattle in her throat. Hours passed. The pleasures of the table ended, and dancing followed.
His smile froze on his lips, and words fled from his mind. Linares was standing next to Maria Clara on the balcony, interweaving nosegays with the flowers and leaves on the climbing plants. On the floor, were scattered roses and sampagas. Maria Clara was leaning back on a sofa, pale, pensive, her look sad, playing with her ivory fan. But the fan was not as white as her poor fingers.
Captain Tiago presented himself at that moment, kissed the curate's hand, took the Father's hat and cane and smiled like one who had been blessed. "Well, well!" said the curate, going into the sala, followed by Linares and Captain Tiago. "I have good news from Manila which you will all enjoy.
"It's the same thing. If you will tell me " "Shall I find Padre Damaso in his town?" interrupted Linares, addressing Padre Salvi. "I've been told that it's near here." "He's right here and will be over in a little while," replied the curate. "How glad I am of that!
"How he loves his goddaughter!" thought all present, while Fray Salvi gazed at him motionlessly and in silence, lightly gnawing his lips the while. When he had become somewhat calm again Doña Victorina introduced Linares, who approached him respectfully.
Very early the following day they left for Manila in his carriage, committing to the bashful Linares the office of avenger. The Enigma Volverán las oscuras golondrinas. As Lucas had foretold, Ibarra arrived on the following day.
I wanted to live to hear him spoken of ... but now that they have killed him, now there is no reason for my living and suffering." She said this slowly, in a low voice, calmly and without a tear. "But, you goose; isn't Linares a thousand times better than....?" "When he was living, I could have married ... I was thinking of fleeing afterward ... my father wanted nothing more than the relative.
The voice of the curate had reached the ears of all in the house, even Father Dámaso, Captain Tiago and Linares. "An insolent beggar who came to ask alms and doesn't want to work," said Father Salví, taking his hat and cane and starting toward the convent.
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