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Updated: May 24, 2025
With a beautiful grace of manner and expression, the Visayan went to the other woman, and again speaking as if she thought her words could be understood, held out the picture which she had kissed, for the stranger to look at. The photograph was that of a young American officer, in a lieutenant's uniform. Grace Allenthorne and her mother had lived in Manila for several months.
One morning he said to me: 'The maestro Miller, he does not eat. "'No? I answered, absent-mindedly. "'No, he never eats, he reiterated authoritatively, although that peculiar Visayan inflection of which I have spoken gave him the air of asking a question. "'Oh, I suppose he does, I said, carelessly. "'He does not eat, he repeated. 'Every one in Binalbagan say so.
If we consider the condition of the loudest supporters of the movement, we find them all, or nearly all, to be politicians, políticos. Some of these politicians are not Tagálogs for example, Señor Osmeña, the Speaker of the Assembly, is a Visayan; so that it would perhaps be more accurate to say of the entire propaganda that it is an affair of the politicians, supported chiefly by Tagálogs.
We tramped across the fields to our objective point. As madrina, I walked with the bride, but conversation did not thrive because she spoke little Spanish, and I less Visayan. Carabaos sniffed at us as we passed, and people crowded their windows to look.
Around it were the ruins of pretentious Spanish houses, across its threshold lay a smouldering, blackened piece of wood, which alone should have converted it into cinders. But there it stood unharmed, not even scorched by the fierce heat to which it had been subjected, and within its walls the Visayan idol smiled down on the curious crowd, with a superhuman intelligence.
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