Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 18, 2025
Don't think that I deny the power of science, above all, that of surgery, but a clean conscience! Read the pious books and you'll see how many cures are effected merely by a clean confession." "Pardon me," objected the piqued Doña Victorina, "this power of the confessional cure the alferez's woman with a confession!"
Doña Victorina, entirely satisfied and becoming enthusiastic, then broke out into exaggerations of Pelaez's merits and was already going to make Isagani a confidant of her new passion when Paulita's friend came running to say that the former's fan had fallen among the stones of the beach, near the Malecon.
Doña Victorina was attired in a loose silk gown embroidered with flowers and a hat with a huge parrot half-crushed between blue and red ribbons. The dust of the road mingled with the rice-powder on her cheeks seemed to accentuate her wrinkles. As at the time we saw her in Manila, she now supported her lame husband on her arm.
He, after wandering about the world for six or seven months, a modern Ulysses, found at last in the island of Luzon, hospitality, money, and a faded Calypso, his better half but alas! a bitter half. He was known as the unhappy Tiburcio Espadaña, and, although he was thirty-five years old and seemed even older, he was, however, younger than Doña Victorina, who was only thirty-two.
"Let him know," declared Doña Victorina furiously, "that I'll call in the Civil Guard. Alive or dead, I want to know where he is because one has to wait ten years before marrying again." Isagani gazed at her in fright Doña Victorina was thinking of remarrying! Who could the unfortunate be? "What do you think of Juanito Pelaez?" she asked him suddenly. Juanito! Isagani knew not what to reply.
He was in the midst of these doubts when the party in favor of the Government, or the Governmental party, arrived, viz., Doña Victorina, Don Tiburcio, and Linares. Doña Victorina did all the talking for the three men and for herself also. She mentioned the visits which Linares had made to the Governor General, and repeatedly brought out the benefits derived from having a relative of categoría.
De Espadaña thinks that it is the most beautiful, and De Espadaña has seen the whole world." "I will probably never return to this land of savages." "I was not born to live here. Aden or Port Said would be more suitable for me. I have always thought so since I was a child." Doña Victorina, in her geography, divided the world into two parts, the Philippines and Spain.
With a bewitching whirl of her body and a sweep of her hand she arranged the folds of her skirt, shot a rapid and apparently careless glance toward Isagani, spoke to him and smiled. Doña Victorina descended in her turn, gazed over her spectacles, saw Juanito Pelaez, smiled, and bowed to him affably.
"Train your woman better, buy her some decent clothes, and if you haven't any money left, rob the people that's what you've got soldiers for!" yelled Doña Victorina. "Here I am, señora! Why doesn't your Excellency smash my mouth? You're only tongue and spittle, Doña Excelencia!"
Later came the bridal couple, escorted by Doña Victorina and the rest of the party. Congratulations, hand-shakings, patronizing pats for the groom: for the bride, insistent stares and anatomical observations on the part of the men, with analyses of her gown, her toilette, speculations as to her health and strength on the part of the women.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking