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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Evil times, evil times!" said Padre Sibyla with a laugh. "Get out, don't say that, Vice-Rector!" responded the Canon Irene, giving the other's chair a shove. "In Hongkong you're doing a fine business, putting up every building that ha, ha!" "Tut, tut!" was the reply; "you don't see our expenses, and the tenants on our estates are beginning to complain "
"The fact is that it involves other considerations," said Padre Sibyla coldly, as he half closed his eyes. The high official again shrugged his shoulders, like one who did not comprehend what those considerations could be. "Besides the intemperateness of the demand," went on the Dominican, "besides the fact that it is in the nature of an infringement on our prerogatives "
Fray Sibyla gnawed at his lips and repeatedly adjusted his gold-mounted eye-glasses. Fray Manuel Martin was the only one who appeared to listen with pleasure, for he was smiling. But at last God said "Enough"; the orator became weary and descended from the pulpit. All knelt to render thanks to God.
"You, Padre Sibyla, instead of paying me five something or other in money, will say, for example: for five days I renounce poverty, humility, and obedience. You, Padre Irene: I renounce chastity, liberality, and so on. Those are small matters, and I'm putting up my diamonds." "What a peculiar man this Simoun is, what notions he has!" exclaimed Padre Irene with a smile.
"Accordingly we joined them and proceeded to look for our companions, who were dining in the house, owned here by the pious and wealthy Don Santiago de los Santos. The curate of the town, the Very Reverend Fray Bernardo Salvi, and the Very Reverend Fray Damaso Verdolagas, who is now by the special favor of Heaven recovered from the suffering caused him by an impious hand, in company with the Very Reverend Fray Hernando Sibyla and the virtuous curate of Tanawan, with other Spaniards, were guests in the house of the Filipino Croesus. There we had the good fortune of admiring not only the luxury and good taste of the host, which are not usual among the natives, but also the beauty of the charming and wealthy heiress, who showed herself to be a polished disciple of St.
He is the curate of Binondo and has been in former years a professor in the college of San Juan de Letran, where he enjoyed the reputation of being a consummate dialectician, so much so that in the days when the sons of Guzman still dared to match themselves in subtleties with laymen, the able disputant B. de Luna had never been able either to catch or to confuse him, the distinctions made by Fray Sibyla leaving his opponent in the situation of a fisherman who tries to catch eels with a lasso.
Perhaps that wonderful bridge was built in the same way. Now tell me, did these people rebel?" "The fact is they have rebelled before," replied the Dominican, "and ab actu ad posse valet illatio!" "No, no, nothing of the kind," continued Simoun, starting down a hatchway to the cabin. "What's said, is said! And you, Padre Sibyla, don't talk either Latin or nonsense.
He said he thought that he had been affected by too much wine and that the same was true of Father Dámaso. 'And your boast to tell the Governor? I asked jokingly. 'Father, he answered, 'I know when to make my word good so long as it does not stain my honor. That is just the reason why I wear only two stars." After talking over several minor matters, Father Sibyla took his leave.
"And so much depends on him," murmured Padre Salvi as they retired. "We'll see who makes that voyage soonest!" remarked another Franciscan. "I shall leave at once," declared the indignant Padre Sibyla. "And we shall go back to our province," said the Augustinians. Neither the Dominican nor the Augustinians could endure the thought that they had been so coldly received on a Franciscan's account.
And thou gavest thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst! Words which the Lord spoke through the mouth of Esdras, in the second book, the ninth chapter, and the twentieth verse." Padre Sibyla glanced in surprise at the preacher. Padre Manuel Martin turned pale and swallowed hard that was better than his!
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