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Updated: May 26, 2025
As it became lighter, she could see her grandfather seated in a corner, following all her movements with his eyes, so she caught up her tampipi of clothes and approached him smilingly to kiss his hand. The old man blessed her silently, while she tried to appear merry. "When father comes back, tell him that I have at last gone to college my mistress talks Spanish.
It's the cheapest college I could find." Seeing the old man's eyes fill with tears, she placed the tampipi on her head and hastily went downstairs, her slippers slapping merrily on the wooden steps.
She was not going very far, she could come every second day to visit the house, her grandfather could see her, and as for Basilio, he had known for some time the bad turn her father's affairs had taken, since he had often said to her, "When I'm a physician and we are married, your father won't need his fields." "What a fool I was to cry so much," she said to herself as she packed her tampipi.
tabú: A utensil fashioned from half of a coconut shell. tajú: A thick beverage prepared from bean-meal and syrup. tampipi: A telescopic basket of woven palm, bamboo, or rattan. Tandang: A title of respect for an old man: from the Tagalog term for "old."
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