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Updated: June 19, 2025
These rapid visits home were all there was to remind siñá Tona that she had an elder son at all. The mistress of the tavern had something else on her mind. She was now spending entire days alone in her hulk there. "The Rector" was offshore, earning his share of cabets, returning only Sundays to hand over, with a show of pride, the three or four pesetas that represented his week's wage.
In the evening he came. I had arranged it with the licensed boatmen; a few pesetas did that. Our boat was nearest the steps. In the dim light of the quay lamp he noticed nothing, but stepped over the gunwale and mentioned the name of his steamer in a quick way, which he thought was that of the English. "Nino took the oars, and when we were round the pier head we hoisted the sail. Then I spoke.
"Come on! I'm going to give you a treat, to-night." She looked up at him, smiling in a fascinating, promising way that foreshadowed paradise. In anguish the poor fellow remembered he had hardly ten pesetas left. To escape the jostling and rude staring of the passers-by, Alicia took refuge in a doorway. Her feet were stiff with cold.
Was it for this I sang mass in the midst of so much pomp, as though in wedding the Church I were uniting myself to wealth?" His poverty made him the slave of Don Antolin, and in the last third of the month he came almost every day to the cloister, trying to soften Silver Stick with his prayers and induce him to lend a few pesetas.
As for his money, I have never seen the colour of it, notwithstanding they tell me that he has buenas pesetas. However, he is a holy man, is continually reading and praying and is, moreover, of the right opinion. I therefore keep him in my house, and would be bail for him were he twenty times more of a skinflint than he seems to be."
The Conant system followed the old Spanish values for coins, the new coins being pesos, medio-pesos, pesetas, media-pesetas, nickels, and copper cents. There was also a copped half-cent, but neither Congress nor Mr. Conant read the Filipino aright. In two years we had taught him to sniff at any value less than a cent.
"All right. The first guard I meet I'll inform against you and tell him that you're carrying stolen goods on your person." "Come across with the three pesetas," said Vidal. "Take the bundle." Vidal took the money and the ragdealer, laughing, took the package. "The first guard we see we'll tell that you've got stolen goods in your sack," shouted Vidal to the ragdealer.
They went to the Bank, to the paying teller, and Caesar drew out twenty thousand pesetas of his few months' winnings on the market. "You are not going to play at all, this month?" asked Alzugaray. "No, not this month." They left the Bank. "I will wire you my address in Paris," said Caesar. "Very good. And nothing is to be done?" "No. That is to say, my partner and I are not going to play.
He could earn a few pesetas, acquire practical experience, and fit himself out in Spanish, all at the same time. And he could live with relative economy. Monsieur Durand could explain that too. In fact, he might get board and lodging in the same house as himself, with Mrs. Wilson who conducted a modest home for "gentlemen only." Mrs.
He replied that I am very young, and after many circumlocutions he said flatly that he doesn't know if I would be accepted or not as a candidate by his followers; but in case I were, the conditions precedent would be: first, that I would not interfere in any way in the affairs of the district, which would be ventilated in the town, as previously; secondly, that I should bear the costs of the election, which would amount approximately to some ten thousand pesetas.
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