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Updated: June 18, 2025
"The happy chance that is, Maria Clara had, in the meantime awakened." "De Espadaña!" said Doña Victorina, finishing her breakfast. "Are we going to see little Clara?" And turning to Captain Tiago, "For you only, Don Santiago; for you alone! My husband does not treat anybody except people of categoría, and he even refuses some of them!
"Well, neither does a century more or less make him a Dominican." "Don't get angry, your Reverence," admonished Padre Sibyla, smiling. "So much the better that he did invent it so as to save his brethren the trouble." "And did you say, Padre Sibyla, that it was in the fourteenth century?" asked Doña Victorina with great interest. "Was that before or after Christ?"
There were present the greater part of our acquaintances: Padre Sibyla and Padre Salvi among various Franciscans and Dominicans; the old lieutenant of the Civil Guard, Señor Guevara, gloomier than ever; the alferez, who was for the thousandth time describing his battle and gazing over his shoulders at every one, believing himself to be a Don John of Austria, for he was now a major; De Espadaña, who looked at the alferez with respect and fear, and avoided his gaze; and Doña Victorina, swelling with indignation.
"Santiago is made of the right stuff." "No, he's not the man who invented gunpowder," added Laruja. "You too, Señor Laruja," exclaimed Doña Victorina in mild reproach, as she fanned herself. "How could the poor man invent gunpowder if, as is said, the Chinese invented it centuries ago?" "The Chinese! Are you crazy?" cried Fray Damaso. "Out with you!
Doña Consolacion turned her head slowly, looked her over again, and then spit again, but with still greater disdain. "What is the matter with you, Doña?" said the alfereza. "Can you tell me, Señora, why you look at me so? Are you envious?" Doña Victorina finally succeeded in saying. "I envious of you?" said the Medusa with scorn. "O, yes! I envy those curls." "Come, wife!" said the doctor.
Doña Victorina frowned and looked squarely at his front set of teeth. He at once became silent, and she learned his weakness. She soon got the idea that she was to become a mother and made the following announcement to all her friends: "Next month, we, I and de Espadaña are going to the Peñinsula. I don't want to have my son born here and have them call him a revolutionist."
She added a de to her husband's name. The de did not cost anything and gave categoría to the name. When she signed herself, she wrote Victorina de los Reyes de de Espadaña. That de de Espadaña was her mania. Neither the lithographer who printed her cards, nor her husband, could get the idea out of her head.
But when the facts reached the ears of the people, they began to lose confidence in him, and little by little Don Tiburcio Espadaña lost his clientage, and found himself almost obliged to beg for bread day by day. Then it was that he learned from a friend of his, who was also a friend of Doña Victorina about the position of that woman, and about her patriotism and good heart.
"A li-lichen in mil-milk in the-the morning; syrup of marsh marsh-mal-mallow, tw-o two hounds' hounds' tongue pi-pills," ordered De Espadaña. "Take courage, little Clara," said Doña Victorina, approaching her. "We have come to cure you. I am going to present our cousin to you."
sampaloc monday 7 in the evening The affair was serious. He was well enough acquainted with the character of Doña Victorina to know what she was capable of.
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