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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Come in, young man!" The Manilan who had confounded Greek with Tagalog entered the room pale and trembling. All were filled with surprise; surely his Excellency must be greatly irritated to dare to make the friars wait! Padre Sibyla remarked, "I haven't anything to say to him, I'm wasting my time here." "I say the same," added an Augustinian. "Shall we go?"
In the latter place he saw a carriage in which was the Vice-Rector, Padre Sibyla, accompanied by Don Custodio, and he had a great mind to seize the friar and throw him into the river.
Fuming, and disregarding the excuses of Padre Irene, who tried to explain while he rubbed the tip of his beak in order to conceal his sly smile, he went into the billiardroom. "Padre Fernandez, would you like to take a hand?" asked Fray Sibyla. "I'm a very poor player," replied the friar with a grimace. "Then get Simoun," said the General. "Eh, Simoun! Eh, Mister, won't you try a hand?"
The tone in which the jeweler spoke was so serious, while he rested his forehead on the tip of his forefinger in an attitude of deep meditation, that Padre Camorra responded very gravely, "Who knows, who knows?" "Since we're busy with legends and are now entering the lake," remarked Padre Sibyla, "the captain must know many "
'Padre, he answered me, 'I know how to keep my word when my honor is affected, but I am not nor have ever been an informer for that reason I wear only two stars." After they had conversed a while longer on unimportant subjects, Fray Sibyla took his departure. It was true that the lieutenant had not gone to the Palace, but the Captain-General heard what had occurred.
"You know that the virtues a person may possess," gravely argued Padre Sibyla, "are not like the diamonds that may pass from hand to hand, to be sold and resold. They are inherent in the being, they are essential attributes of the subject " "I'll be satisfied then if you pay me with promises," replied Simoun jestingly.
Our bond of prestige, Padre Sibyla, is about worn out, so let's prepare another, the bond of gratitude, for example. Let's not be fools, let's do as the crafty Jesuits " "Padre Fernandez!" Anything could be tolerated by Padre Sibyla except to propose the Jesuits to him as a model. Pale and trembling, he broke out into bitter recrimination. "A Franciscan first! Anything before a Jesuit!"
"Tomorrow your Honor will throw the rod into the fire to warm yourself by it in the winter of life, and take an appointment in the cabinet," added Padre Sibyla. "Pshaw! Yes no to be a cabinet official isn't exactly my beau-ideal: any upstart may become one.
Maria Clara made out the rotund figure of Padre Damaso at the side of the trim silhouette of Padre Sibyla. Motionless in his place stood the silent and mysterious Fray Salvi. "He's sad," observed Sinang, "for he's thinking about how much so many visitors are going to cost. But you'll see how he'll not pay it himself, but the sacristans will. His visitors always eat at other places."
"Padre Irene," continued Makaraig, "has told me about everything that took place at Los Baños. It seems that they disputed for at least a week, he supporting and defending our case against all of them, against Padre Sibyla, Padre Fernandez, Padre Salvi, the General, the jeweler Simoun " "The jeweler Simoun!" interrupted one of his listeners.
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