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Updated: June 18, 2025
Little by little the party resumed its former tranquillity. Other guests had come in, among them a lame old Spaniard of mild and inoffensive aspect leaning on the arm of an elderly Filipina, who was resplendent in frizzes and paint and a European gown. The group welcomed them heartily, and Doctor De Espadaña and his señora, the Doctora Doña Victorina, took their seats among our acquaintances.
Don Tiburcio interposed, pleading with them, but they would have come to blows if the alferez had not arrived. "But, señoras!... Don Tiburcio!" "Teach your woman better; buy her better clothes. If you haven't the money, rob the people. You have your soldiers for that!" shouted Doña Victorina. "Señora," said the alferez furiously.
They were approaching a dazzling señorita who was attracting the attention of the whole plaza, and Padre Camorra, unable to restrain his delight, had taken Ben-Zayb's arm as a substitute for the girl's. It was Paulita Gomez, the prettiest of the pretty, in company with Isagani, followed by Doña Victorina.
The young man bowed gracefully. Captain Tiago almost kissed his hand. Doña Victorina was a woman of about forty-five summers, which, according to her arithmetical calculations, was equivalent to thirty-two springs. She had been pretty in her youth, but, raging over her own beauty, she had looked with disdain on many Filipino adorers, for her aspirations were for the other race.
But unfortunately Doña Victorina was there and she pounced upon the young man to ask him for news of Don Tiburcio, since Isagani had undertaken to discover his hiding-place by inquiry among the students he knew. "No one has been able to tell me up to now," he answered, and he was telling the truth, for Don Tiburcio was really hidden in the house of the youth's own uncle, Padre Florentino.
"And where were you that you didn't telegraph?" asked Doña Victorina. "When we were married we telegraphed to the Peñinsula." "Señora, for the past two years I have been in the northern part of Europe, in Germany and Russian Poland." Doctor De Espadaña, who until now had not ventured upon any conversation, thought this a good opportunity to say something.
"I wasn't born to live here Aden or Port Said would suit me better I've thought so ever since I was a girl." In her geography Doña Victorina divided the world into the Philippines and Spain; rather differently from the clever people who divide it into Spain and America or China for another name.
"If the captain notices you, he'll invite you also, and we should then be abusing his kindness." "My uncle's way!" thought Isagani. "All so that I won't have any reason for talking with Doña Victorina." Ich weiss nicht was soil es bedeuten Dass ich so traurig bin! When Padre Florentino joined the group above, the bad humor provoked by the previous discussion had entirely disappeared.
Doña Victorina, however, was just turning up her nose in disdain when she suddenly became as furious as a trampled serpent the lieutenant had stepped on the train of her gown. "Haven't you any eyes?" she demanded. "Yes, señora, two better than yours, but the fact is that I was admiring your frizzes," retorted the rather ungallant soldier as he moved away from her.
A carriage was coming, drawn by white horses, the white horses that he would know among a hundred thousand. In the carriage rode Paulita and her friend of the night before, with Doña Victorina. Before the young man could take a step, Paulita had leaped to the ground with sylph-like agility and smiled at him with a smile full of conciliation.
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