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"We're going to have the cancan!" exclaimed Tadeo, the winner of the first prize in the French class, who had managed to make out this word. "Makaraig, they're going to dance the cancan!" He rubbed his hands gleefully. From the moment the curtain rose, Tadeo had been heedless of the music.
"Makaraig, the wealthy Makaraig, has offered one of his." Capitan Basilio had to give in; these young men had everything arranged. "For the rest," he said with a shrug of his shoulders, "it's not altogether bad, it's not a bad idea, and now that you can't know Latin at least you may know Castilian. Here you have another instance, namesake, of how we are going backwards.
"He's a pupil of mine," put in Padre Fernandez, "and I'm much pleased with him." "Puñales, I like your taste!" exclaimed Padre Camorra. "On the steamer we nearly had a fight. He's so insolent that when I gave him a shove aside he returned it." "There's also one Makaragui or Makarai " "Makaraig," Padre Irene joined in. "A very pleasant and agreeable young man."
Basilio realized that he had made a bad move, but he could not now retreat. "I've come to see my friend Makaraig," he replied calmly. The guards looked at each other. "Wait here," one of them said to him. "Wait till the corporal comes down." Basilio bit his lips and Simoun's words again recurred to him. Had they come to arrest Makaraig? was his thought, but he dared not give it utterance.
Makaraig paused, and an impatient listener asked, "How can we influence him?" "Padre Irene pointed out to me two ways " "Quiroga," some one suggested. "Pshaw, great use Quiroga " "A fine present." "No, that won't do, for he prides himself upon being incorruptible." "Ah, yes, I know!" exclaimed Pecson with a laugh. "Pepay the dancing girl." "Ah, yes, Pepay the dancing girl," echoed several.
"But, the cancan?" asked Makaraig. "They're talking about the most suitable place to dance it," gravely responded Sandoval. "They look like the Chinamen of the pansiteria," repeated Pecson in disgust. A lady accompanied by her husband entered at that moment and took her place in one of the two vacant boxes.
True it was that curious groups were standing by the windows, while the talk and laughter in the adjoining houses had ceased altogether, as if the people there were giving their attention to what was occurring at the banquet. There was something extraordinary about the silence. "Tadeo, deliver your speech," Makaraig whispered to him.
"At last," resumed Makaraig, "they were going to pigeonhole the petition and let it sleep for months and months, when Padre Irene remembered the Superior Commission of Primary Instruction and proposed, since the matter concerned the teaching of the Castilian tongue, that the petition be referred to that body for a report upon it."
With a graceful gesture, as though he were in his own house, he invited the warrant officer and the corporal to enter the carriage that waited at the door. "To the Civil Government!" he ordered the cochero. Now that Basilio had again regained his composure, he told Makaraig the object of his visit. The rich student did not wait for him to finish, but seized his hand.
At nine Camaroncocido saw him again, in the neighborhood of the theater, speak with a person who seemed to be a student, pay the latter's admission to the show, and again disappear among the shadows of the trees. "What is it to me?" again muttered Camaroncocido. "What do I get out of watching over the populace?" Basilio, as Makaraig said, had not gone to the show.
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