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Updated: May 5, 2025
He took the biscuits, thanked her very briefly and in a voice scarcely audible. No one else took any notice of him. The happy laughter and jolly conversation of the young men did not cause him to relax a single muscle of his face. Not even Sinang, with all her jollity, had any effect on him.
Maria Clara had said that she was not hungry and had seated herself at the piano in company with the merry Sinang, who was murmuring mysterious words into her ear. Meanwhile Padre Salvi paced nervously back and forth in the room.
The merry voice of Sinang was heard, as she descended the stairs on a run and at once put an end to all excuses. "Come up a moment so that I can go out with you," said she. "It bores me to be among so many strangers who talk about nothing but fighting-cocks and playing cards." They went upstairs. The house was full of people. Some advanced to greet Ibarra, whose name was known to all.
The rack is almost circular in form and about a meter in diameter, and is so arranged that a man can stand on top of one end of it and thus take out the fish with his net. "There, it wouldn't tire me a bit to fish that way," said Sinang, quite joyful. All were watching attentively.
If he don't, I won't let him marry your daughter. Don't you permit it. If he has no courage, he does not merit Clarita." "Then you are going to marry this gentleman?" asked Sinang, with her jolly eyes full of tears. "I knew that you were discreet, but I did not think you so fickle."
With a majestic sweep of her hand she snatched out his false teeth and trampled them in the street. Thus, he half-crying and she breathing fire, they reached the house. Linares was talking with Maria Clara, Sinang, and Victoria, and as he had heard nothing of the quarrel, became rather uneasy at sight of his cousins.
In front of Capitan Basilio's house some young women called to our acquaintances and invited them to enter. The merry voice of Sinang as she ran down the stairs put an end to all excuses. "Come up a moment so that I may go with you," she said. "I'm bored staying here among so many strangers who talk only of game-cocks and cards."
"Sinang tells me that Maria is improving all the time," says Capitan Basilio. "She has no more fever but is still very weak." "Did you lose last night?" "A little. I hear that you won. I'm going to see if I can't get even here." "Do you want to fight the lásak?" asks Capitan Basilio, looking at the cock and taking it from the servant. "That depends if there's a bet." "How much will you put up?"
"But it hasn't been a week since she confessed!" protested Sinang. "I'm not sick and I don't sin as often as that." "Abá! Don't you know what the curate says: the righteous sin seven times a day? Come, what book shall I bring you, the Ancora, the Ramillete, or the Camino Recto para ir al Cielo?" Maria Clara did not answer. "Well, you mustn't tire yourself," added the good aunt to console her.
But look at his eyes and his face!" Just at that moment the clock in the house struck eight. The curate trembled and went and sat down in a corner of the room. "He is coming," said Sinang, pinching Maria Clara. "Do you hear?" The bell in the church tolled eight and all arose to pray.
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