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The Reign of Greed by José Rizal - Part 2/2 · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: But you have come and decided me. This night, the
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  Speaker 1: most dangerous tyrants will be blown to pieces, the irresponsible
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  Speaker 1: rulers that hide themselves behind God, and the state whose
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  Speaker 1: abuses remain unpunished because no one can bring them to justice.
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  Speaker 1: This night, the Philippines will hear the explosion that will
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  Speaker 1: convert into rubbish, the formless monument whose decay I have fostered.
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  Speaker 1: Basilio was so terrified that his lips worked without producing
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  Speaker 1: any sound, his tongue was paralyzed, his throat parched. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time, he was looking at the powerful liquid
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  Speaker 1: which he had heard talked of as a thing distilled
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  Speaker 1: three hundred fifteen in gloom by gloomy men in open
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  Speaker 1: war against society. Now he had it before him, transparent
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  Speaker 1: and slightly yellowish, poured with great caution into the artistic pomegranate.
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  Speaker 1: Symon looked to him like the gene of the Arabian
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  Speaker 1: knights that sprang from the sea. He took on gigantic proportions,
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  Speaker 1: his head touched the sky. He made the house tremble,
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  Speaker 1: and shook the whole city. With a shrug of his shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: the pomegranate assumed the form of a colossal sphere. The
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  Speaker 1: fissures became hellish grins. Whence escaped names and glowing cinders.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time in his life, Basilio was overcome
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  Speaker 1: with fright and completely lost his composure. Simon meanwhile, screwed
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  Speaker 1: on solidly a curious and complicated mechanism, put in place
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  Speaker 1: a glass chimney, then the bomb, and crown the hole
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  Speaker 1: with an elegant shade. Then he moved away some distance
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  Speaker 1: to contemplate the effect, inclining his head now to one side,
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  Speaker 1: now to the other, thus better to appreciate its magnificent appearance.
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  Speaker 1: Noticing that Basilio was watching him with questioning and suspicious eyes,
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  Speaker 1: he said, to night there will be a fiesta, and
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  Speaker 1: this lamp will be placed in a little dining kiosk
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  Speaker 1: that I have had constructed for the purpose. The lamp
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  Speaker 1: will give a brilliant light, bright enough to suffice for
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  Speaker 1: the illumination of the whole place by itself. But at
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  Speaker 1: the end of twenty minutes the light will fade, and
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  Speaker 1: then when some one tries to turn up the wick,
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  Speaker 1: a cap of fulminate of mercury will explode. The pomag
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  Speaker 1: it will blow up, and with it the dining room,
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  Speaker 1: in the roof and floor of which I have concealed
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  Speaker 1: sacks of powder, so that no one shall escape. There
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  Speaker 1: was a moment's silence while Symons stared at his mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: and Basilio scarcely breathed. So my assistance is not needed,
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  Speaker 1: observed the young man. No, you have another mission to fulfill,
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  Speaker 1: replied Symon thoughtfully. At nine, the mechanism will have exploded,
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  Speaker 1: and the report will have been heard in the country,
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  Speaker 1: round in the mountains, in the caves. The uprising that
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  Speaker 1: I had arranged with the artillery man was a failure
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  Speaker 1: from Lac three hundred and sixteen of plan and timeliness.
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  Speaker 1: But this time it won't be so. Upon hearing the explosion,
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  Speaker 1: the wretched and the oppressed, those who wander about, pursued
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  Speaker 1: by force, will sally forth arm to join cape, saying
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  Speaker 1: tails in Santa Mesa. Whence they will fall upon the city. Two.
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  Speaker 1: While the soldiers, whom I have made to believe that
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  Speaker 1: the General is shamming an insurrection in order to remain,
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  Speaker 1: will issue from their barracks, ready to fire upon whomsoever
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  Speaker 1: I may designate. Meanwhile, the cowed populace, thinking that the
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  Speaker 1: hour of massacre has come, will rush out, prepared to
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  Speaker 1: kill or be killed. And as they have neither arms
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  Speaker 1: nor organization, you with some others will put yourself at
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  Speaker 1: their head and direct them to the warehouses of Kiroga,
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  Speaker 1: where I keep my rifles. Kate Sang Tales and I
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  Speaker 1: will join one another in the city and take possession
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  Speaker 1: of it, while you in the suburbs will seize the
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  Speaker 1: bridges and throw up barricades, and then be ready to
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  Speaker 1: come to our aid, to butcher not only those opposing
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  Speaker 1: the revolution, but also every man who refuses to take
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  Speaker 1: up arms and join us. All stammered Basilio in a
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  Speaker 1: choking voice. All repeated Simon in a sinister tone. All Indians, Mestizos,
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  Speaker 1: Chinese Spaniards, all who are found to be without courage,
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  Speaker 1: without energy. The race must be renewed. Cowardly fathers will
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  Speaker 1: only breed slavish sons, and it wouldn't be worth while
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  Speaker 1: to destroy and then try to rebuild with rotten materials.
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  Speaker 1: What do you shudder? Do you tremble? Do you fear
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  Speaker 1: to scatter death? What is death? What does a hecatome
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  Speaker 1: of twenty thousand wretches signify? Twenty thousand miseries less and
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  Speaker 1: millions of wretches saved from birth. The most timid ruler
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  Speaker 1: does not three hundred seventeen hesitate to dictate a law
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  Speaker 1: that produces misery and lingering death for thousands and thousands
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  Speaker 1: of prosperous and industrious subjects, happy perchance merely to satisfy
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  Speaker 1: a caprice, a whim his pride. And yet you shudder,
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  Speaker 1: because in one night are to be ended forever the
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  Speaker 1: mental tortures of many hellaths, because a viciated and paralytic
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  Speaker 1: people has to die to give place to another, young, active,
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  Speaker 1: full of energy. What is death? Nothingness or a dream?
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  Speaker 1: Can its specters be compared to the reality of the
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  Speaker 1: agonies of a whole miserable generation. The needful thing is
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the evil, to kill the dragon and the
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  Speaker 1: new people in the blood, in order to make it
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  Speaker 1: strong and invulnerable. What else is the inexorable law of nature?
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  Speaker 1: The law of strife, in which the weak has to
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  Speaker 1: succumb so that the vitiated species be not perpetuated, and
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  Speaker 1: creation thus travel backwards away. Then, with effeminate scruples, fulfill
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  Speaker 1: the eternal laws, foster them, and then the earth will
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  Speaker 1: be so much the more feak and the more it
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  Speaker 1: is fertilized with blood, and the thrones the more solid,
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  Speaker 1: the more they rest upon crimes and corpses. Let there
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  Speaker 1: be no hesitation, no doubtings. What is the pain of death?
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  Speaker 1: A momentary sensation, perhaps confused, perhaps agreeable, like the transition
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  Speaker 1: from waking to sleep. What is it that is being destroyed? Evil?
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  Speaker 1: Suffering feeble weeds in order to set in their place
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  Speaker 1: luxuriant plants. Do you call that destruction? I should call
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  Speaker 1: it creating, producing, nourishing, vivifying. Such bloody sophisms utters with
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  Speaker 1: conviction and coolness, overwhelmed the youth, weakened as he was
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  Speaker 1: by more than three months in prison, and blinded by
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  Speaker 1: his passion for revenge, so he was not in a
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  Speaker 1: mood to analyze the moral basis of the matter. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of replying that the worst and cowardliest of men is
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  Speaker 1: always something more than a plant, because he has a
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  Speaker 1: soul and an intelligence, which, however vitiated and brutalized they
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  Speaker 1: may be, can be redeemed, instead of replying that man
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  Speaker 1: has no right to dispose of one life for the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of another, that the right to life is inherent
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  Speaker 1: in every individual like the right to liberty and to
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  Speaker 1: three hundred eighteen light. Instead of replying that if it
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  Speaker 1: is an abuse on the part of governments to punish
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  Speaker 1: and a culprit to faults and crimes to which they
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  Speaker 1: have driven him by their own negligence or stupidity, how
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  Speaker 1: much more so would it be in a man, however
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  Speaker 1: great and however unfortunate he might be, to punish in
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  Speaker 1: a wretched people the faults of its governments and its ancestors.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of declaring that God alone can use such methods,
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  Speaker 1: that God can destroy because he can created, who holds
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  Speaker 1: in his hands recompense eternity and the future to justify
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  Speaker 1: his acts, and man never instead of these reflections, Basilio
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  Speaker 1: merely interposed a cant reflection, What will the world say
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  Speaker 1: at the sight of such butchery? The world will applaud
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  Speaker 1: as usual, conceding the right of the strongest, the most violent,
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  Speaker 1: replied Simon with his cruel smile. Europe applauded when the
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  Speaker 1: Western nations sacrificed millions of Indians in America, and not
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  Speaker 1: by any means to found nations much more moral or
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  Speaker 1: more pacific. There is the North, with its egotistic liberty,
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  Speaker 1: its lynch law, its political frauds. The South with its
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  Speaker 1: turbulent republics, its barbarous revolutions, civil wars, pronunciamientos. As in
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  Speaker 1: its mother Spain, Europe applauded when the powerful Portugal despoiled
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  Speaker 1: the Moluccas. It applauds while England is destroying the primitive
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  Speaker 1: races in the Pacific to make room for its emigrants.
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  Speaker 1: Europe will applaud as the end of a drama. The
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  Speaker 1: close of a tragedy is applauded for the vulgar do
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  Speaker 1: not fix their attention on principles. They look only at results.
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  Speaker 1: Commit the crime well, and you will be admired and
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  Speaker 1: have more partisans than if you had carried out virtuous
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  Speaker 1: actions with modesty and timidity. Exactly, rejoin the youth. What
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  Speaker 1: does it matter to me, after all, whether they praise
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  Speaker 1: or censure? When this world takes no care of the oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: of the poor, and of weak womankind. What obligations have
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  Speaker 1: I to recognize towards society when it has recognized none
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  Speaker 1: toward me. That's what I like to hear, declared the
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  Speaker 1: Tempter triumphantly three hundred nineteen. He took a revolver from
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  Speaker 1: a case and gave it to Basilio, saying, at ten
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  Speaker 1: o'clock wait for me in front of the church of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Sebastian to receive my final instructions. AH. At nine,
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  Speaker 1: you must be far very far from Caye almloac. Basilio
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  Speaker 1: examined the weapon, loaded it, and placed it in the
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  Speaker 1: inside pocket of his coat, then took his leave with
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  Speaker 1: a curt I'll see you later. Three hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: one Ultima raison de reyees the last argument of kings
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  Speaker 1: force expression attributed to Calderon de la Barca, the great
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  Speaker 1: Spanish dramatist, tir too curiously enough and by what must
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  Speaker 1: have been more than a mere coincidence, This route through
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  Speaker 1: Santa Mesa from San Juan del Monte was the one
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  Speaker 1: taken by an armed party in their attempt to enter
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  Speaker 1: the city at the outbreak of the Catapunan rebellion on
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  Speaker 1: the morning of August thirtieth, eighteen ninety six. Foreman's The
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  Speaker 1: Philippine Islands, chapter twenty six. It was also on the
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  Speaker 1: bridge connecting these two places that the first shot in
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  Speaker 1: the insurrection against American sovereignty was fired on the night
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  Speaker 1: of February fourth, eighteen ninety nine. Do Tiar Contents, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty four, The Wedding. Once in the street, Basilio began
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  Speaker 1: to consider how he might spend the time until the
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  Speaker 1: fatal hour arrived, for it was then not later than
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  Speaker 1: seven o'clock. It was the vacation period, and all the
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  Speaker 1: students were back in their town, Isigoni being the only
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  Speaker 1: one who had not cared to leave, But he had
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  Speaker 1: disappeared that morning and no one knew his whereabouts. So
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  Speaker 1: Basilio had been informed when, after leaving the prison, he
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  Speaker 1: had gone to visit his friend and ask him for lodging.
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  Speaker 1: The young man did not know where to go, for
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  Speaker 1: he had no money, nothing but the revolver. The memory
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  Speaker 1: of the lamp filled his imagination the great catastrophe that
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  Speaker 1: would occur within two hours. Pondering over this, he seemed
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  Speaker 1: to see the men who passed before his eyes walking
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  Speaker 1: without heads, and he felt a thrill of ferocious joy
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  Speaker 1: in telling himself that hungry and destitute he that night
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  Speaker 1: was going to be dreaded, That from a poor student
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  Speaker 1: and servant, perhaps the sun would see him transformed into
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  Speaker 1: some one terrible and sinister. Standing upon pyramids of corpses,
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  Speaker 1: dictating laws to all those who were passing before his gaze.
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  Speaker 1: Now in magnificent carriages, he laughed like one condemned to death,
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  Speaker 1: and patted the butt of the revolver. The boxes of
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  Speaker 1: cartridges were also in his pockets. Question suddenly occurred to him,
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  Speaker 1: where would the drama begin? In his bewilderment, he had
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  Speaker 1: not thought of asking Simon, but the latter had warned
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  Speaker 1: him to keep away from Caye al Looac. Then came
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  Speaker 1: a suspicion that afternoon, upon leaving the prison, he had
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to the former house of Capitan Tiago to get
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  Speaker 1: his few personal effects, and had found it transformed prepared
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  Speaker 1: for a fiesta three hundred twenty one, the wedding of
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  Speaker 1: Guenito Pelias. Simon had spoken of a fiesta. At this moment,
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  Speaker 1: he noticed passing in front of him a long line
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  Speaker 1: of carriages filled with ladies and gentlemen, conversing in a
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  Speaker 1: lively manner, and he even thought he could make out
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  Speaker 1: big bouquets of flowers, but he gave the detail no thought.
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  Speaker 1: The carriages were going toward Caye Rosario, and in meeting
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  Speaker 1: those that came down off the bridge of Spain, had
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  Speaker 1: to move along slowly and stop frequently. In one he
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  Speaker 1: saw Gunnito Peliz at the side of a woman dressed
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  Speaker 1: in white with a transparent veil, in whom he recognized
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  Speaker 1: Polita Gomez Paulita. He ejaculated in surprise, realizing that it
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  Speaker 1: was indeed she in a bridal gown along with Juanito Pelliz,
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  Speaker 1: as though they were just coming from the church. Poor Isigani,
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  Speaker 1: he murmured, what can have become of him? He thought
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  Speaker 1: for a while about his friend, a great and generous soul,
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  Speaker 1: and mentally asked himself if it would not be well
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  Speaker 1: to tell him about the plan, then answered himself that
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  Speaker 1: Isigani would never take part in such a butchery. They
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  Speaker 1: had not treated Isigani as they had him. Then he
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  Speaker 1: thought that had there been no imprisonment, he would have
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  Speaker 1: been betrothed or a husband. At this time, a licentiate
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  Speaker 1: in medicine, living and working in some corner of his province.
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  Speaker 1: The ghost of Julie, crushed in her fall, crossed his mind,
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  Speaker 1: and dark flames of hatred lighted his eyes. Again. He
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  Speaker 1: caressed the butt of the revolver, regretting that the terrible
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  Speaker 1: hour had not yet come. Just then he saw Symon
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  Speaker 1: come out of the door of his house, carrying in
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  Speaker 1: his hands the case containing the lamp, carefully wrapped up,
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  Speaker 1: and enter a care carriage, which then followed those bearing
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  Speaker 1: the bridal party in order not to lose track of Simon.
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  Speaker 1: Basilio took a good look at the cacero and with astonishment,
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  Speaker 1: recognized in him the wretch who had driven him to
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  Speaker 1: San Diego Sinong, the fellow maltreated by the civil guard,
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  Speaker 1: the same who had come to the prison to tell
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  Speaker 1: him about the occurrences in Tianni three hundred and twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Conjecturing that Caye Onolag was to be the scene of action.
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  Speaker 1: Thither the youth directed his steps, hurrying forward and getting
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the carriages, which were in fact all moving
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  Speaker 1: toward the former house of Capitan Tiago. There they were
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  Speaker 1: assembling in search of a ball, but actually to dance
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  Speaker 1: in the air. Basilio smiled when he noticed the pairs
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  Speaker 1: of civil guards who formed the escort, and from their
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  Speaker 1: number he could guess the importance of the fiesta and
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  Speaker 1: the guests. The house overflowed with people and poured floods
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  Speaker 1: of light from its windows. The entrance was carpeted and
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  Speaker 1: strewn with flowers. Upstairs, there, perhaps in his former solitary room,
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  Speaker 1: an orchestra was playing Lifers, which did not completely drown
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  Speaker 1: the confused tumult of talk and laughter. Don Timoteo Peliz
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  Speaker 1: was reaching the pinnacle of fortune, and the reality surpassed
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  Speaker 1: his dreams. He was at last marrying his son to
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  Speaker 1: the rich Gomez Heires, and thanks to the money Simon
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  Speaker 1: had lent him, he had royally furnished that big house,
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  Speaker 1: purchased for half its value, and was giving in it
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  Speaker 1: a splendid fiesta with the foremost divinities of the Manila Olympus,
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  Speaker 1: for his guests to guild him with the light of
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  Speaker 1: their prestige. Since that morning, there had been recurring to him,
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  Speaker 1: with the persistence of a popular song, some vague phrases
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  Speaker 1: that he had read in the Communion service. Now has
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  Speaker 1: the fortunate hour come? Now draws neither happy moment. Soon
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  Speaker 1: there will be fulfilled in you the admirable words of Simon.
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  Speaker 1: I live, and yet not I alone, but the Captain
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  Speaker 1: General lyveth in me, the Captain General, the patron of
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  Speaker 1: his son. True, he had not attended the ceremony where
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  Speaker 1: Don Couste the Odio had represented him, but he would
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  Speaker 1: come to dine. He would bring a wedding gift, a
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  Speaker 1: lamp which not even Aladdin's. Between you and me, Simon
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  Speaker 1: was presenting the lamp, Timoteo, What more could you desire?
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  Speaker 1: The transformation that Capitan Tiago's house had undergone was considerable.
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  Speaker 1: It had been richly repapered, while the smoke and the
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  Speaker 1: smell of opium had been completely three hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: three eradicated. The immense sola, widened still more by the
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  Speaker 1: colossal mirrors that infinitely multiplied the lights of the chandeliers.
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  Speaker 1: Was carpeted throughout, for the salons of Europe had carpets,
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  Speaker 1: and even though the floor was of wide boards brilliantly
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  Speaker 1: polished a carpet, it must have two, since nothing should
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  Speaker 1: be lacking. The rich furniture of Capitan Tiago had disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: and in its place was to be seen another kind,
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  Speaker 1: in the style of Louis the fifteenth heavy curtains of
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  Speaker 1: red velvet trimmed with gold, with the initials of the
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  Speaker 1: bridal couple worked on them, and upheld by garlands of
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  Speaker 1: artificial orange blossoms hung as porch and swept the floor
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  Speaker 1: with their wide fringes. Likewise of gold in the corners
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  Speaker 1: appeared enormous Japanese vases, alternating with those of several of
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  Speaker 1: a clear dark blue placed upon square pedestals of carved wood.
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  Speaker 1: The only decorations not in good taste were the screaming
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  Speaker 1: chromos which don To Moteo had substituted for the old
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  Speaker 1: drawings and pictures of saints of Capy Tantiago. Simon had
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  Speaker 1: been unable to dissuade him, for the merchant did not
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  Speaker 1: want oil paintings. Some one might ascribe them to Filipino artists.
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  Speaker 1: He a patron of Filipino artists. Never on that point
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  Speaker 1: depended his peace of mind and perhaps his life, and
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  Speaker 1: he knew how to get along in the Philippines. It
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  Speaker 1: is true that he had heard foreign painters mentioned Lafayel
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  Speaker 1: Mario Velasquez, but he did not know their addresses, and
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  Speaker 1: then they might prove to be somewhat seditious. With the chromos,
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  Speaker 1: he ran no risk, as the Filipinos did not make them.
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  Speaker 1: They came cheaper. The effect was the same, if not better.
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  Speaker 1: The colors brighter and the execution very fine. Don't say
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  Speaker 1: that Don Timoteo did not know how to comport himself.
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  Speaker 1: In the Philippines, the large hallway was decorated with flowers,
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  Speaker 1: having been converted into a dining room, with a long
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  Speaker 1: table for thirty persons in the center, and around the sides,
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  Speaker 1: pushed against the walls, other smaller ones for two or
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  Speaker 1: three persons each. Bouquets of flowers, pyramids of fruits, among ribbons,
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  Speaker 1: and lights covered their centers. The groom's place was designated
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty four by a bunch of roses,
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  Speaker 1: and the brides by another of orange blossoms and tubrosas.
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  Speaker 1: In the presence of so much finery and flowers, one
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  Speaker 1: could imagine that nymphs in gauzy garments and cupids with
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  Speaker 1: iridescent wings were going to serve nectar and ambrosia to
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  Speaker 1: aerial guests, to the sound of lyres and Eolian harps.
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  Speaker 1: But the table for the greater gods was not there,
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  Speaker 1: being placed yonder in the middle of the wide azadi,
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  Speaker 1: within a magnificent kiosk constructed especially for the occasion, a
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  Speaker 1: lattice of gilded with over which clambered fragrant vines screened
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  Speaker 1: the interior from the eyes of the vulgar without impeding
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  Speaker 1: the free circulation of air. To preserve the coolness necessary
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  Speaker 1: at that season, a raised platform lifted the table above
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  Speaker 1: the level of the others, at which the ordinary mortals
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  Speaker 1: were going to dine, and an arch decorated by the
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  Speaker 1: best artists would protect the august heads from the jealous
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: gaze of the stars. On this table were laid only
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: seven plates. The dishes were of solid silver, the cloth
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and napkins of the finest linen, the wines the most
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: costly and exquisite. Dawn to Moteo had sought the most
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: rare and expensive in everything, nor would he have hesitated
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: at crime had he been assured that the Captain General
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: liked to eat human flesh. Three hundred and twenty five Contents,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty five. The Fiesta danzer Sobray and Vulcan. By
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: seven in the evening, the guests had begun to arrive,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: first the lesser divinities, petty government officials, clerks and merchants,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: with the most ceremonious greetings, and the grave airs at
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the start, as if they were parvenus for so much
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: light so many decorations and so much glassware had some effect. Afterwards,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: they began to be more at ease, shaking their fists playfully,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: with pats on the shoulders and even familiar slaps on
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the back. Some, it is true, adopted a rather disdainful
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: air to let it be seen that they were accustomed
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: to better things. Of course they were. There was one
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: goddess who yawned, for she found everything vulgar, and even
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: remarked that she was ravenously hungry, while another quarreled with
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: her God, threatening to box his ears down to Moteo,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: bowed here, and bowed there, scattered his best smiles, tightened
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: his belt, stepped backward, turned half way round, then completely around,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and so on again and again, until one goddess could
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: not refrain from remarking to her neighbor, under cover of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: her fan, my dear, how important the old man is.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Doesn't he look like a jumping jack. Late came the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: bridal couple, escorted by Dona, Victorina and the rest of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the party. Congratulations, hand shakings, patronizing pats for the groom
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: for the bride, insistent stairs, and anatomical observations on the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: part of the men, with analyzes of her gown, her toilette,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: speculations as to her health and strength on the part
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of the women three hundred and twenty six. Cupid and Psyche,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: appearing on Olympus, thought Ben's abe, making a mental note
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of the comparison, to spring it at some better opportunity.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: The groom had, in fact the mischievous features of the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: god of love, and with a little good will, his hump,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: which the severity of his frock coat did not altogether conceal,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: could be taken for a quiver. Don Timoteo began to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: feel his belts squeezing him, The corns on his feet,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: began to ache, his neck became tired. But still the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: general had not come. The greater gods among them, Padre
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Irene and Padre Salvie, had already arrived, it was true,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: but the chief thunderer was still lacking. The poor man
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: became uneasy, nervous, His heart beat violently, but still he
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: had to bow and smile. He sat down, he arose,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: failed to hear what was said to him, did not
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: say what he meant. In the meantime, an amateur god
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: made remarks to him about his cromos criticizing them with
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the statement that they spoiled the walls. Spoil the walls,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: repeated Don Timoteo, with a smile and a desire to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: choke him. But they were made in Europe and are
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the most costly I could get in Manila. Spoil the walls.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Don Timoteo swore to himself that on the very next
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: day he would present for payment all the chits that
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the critic had signed in his store. Whistles resounded, the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: galloping of horses was heard. At last the general the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: captain General, pale with emotion, Don Timoteo, dissembling the pain
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: of his corns, and accompanied by his son and some
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of the greater gods, descended to receive the mighty jove.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: The pain at his belt vanished before the doubts that
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: now assailed him. Should he frame a smile or affect gravity,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Should he extend his hand or wait for the general
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to offer his corumbas? Why had nothing of this occurred
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to him before, so that he might have consulted his
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: good friend Simon to conceal his agitation. He whispered to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: his son, in a low, shaky voice, have you a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: speech prepared? Three hundred and twenty seven speeches are no
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: longer in vogue, Papa, especially on such an occasion as this.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Jupiter arrived in the company of Juno, who was converted
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: into a tower of artificial lights. With diamonds in her hair,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: diamonds around her neck, on her arms, on her shoulders.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: She was literally covered with diamonds. She was arrayed in
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a magnificent silk gown, having a long train decorated with
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: embossed flowers. His Excellency literally took possession of the house,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: as don to Moteo stammeringly begged him to due point
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: when the orchestra played the Royal March, while the divine
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: couple majestically assented the carpeted stairway. Nor was his Excellency's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: gravity altogether affected. Perhaps for the first time since his
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: arrival in the islands, he felt sad. A strain of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: melancholy tinged his thoughts. This was the last triumph of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: his three years of government, and within two days he
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: would descend forever from such an exalted height. What was
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: he leaving behind? His Excellency did not care to turn
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: his head backwards, but preferred to look ahead to gaze
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: into the future. Although he was carrying away a fortune,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: large sums to his credit were awaiting him in European banks,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and he had residences. Yet he had injured many, he
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: had made enemies at the court. The High official was
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: waiting for him there. Other generals had enriched themselves as
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: rapidly as he, and now they were ruined. Why not
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: stay longer, as Symon had advised him to do, no
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: good taste before everything else. The bows, moreover, were not
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: now so profound as before, he noticed, insisted, and stars
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and even looks of dislike. But still he replied affably,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and even attempted to smile. It's plain that the sun
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: is setting, observed Padre Irene in benz Abe's ear. Many
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: now stare him in the face, the devil with the curate.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: That was just what he was going to remark. Three
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight, My dear murmured into the ear
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of a neighbor, the lady who had referred to Don
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Timoteo as a jumping jack. Did you ever see such
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a skirt ough the curtains from the palace, You don't say,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: but it's true. They're carrying everything away. You'll see how
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: they make raps out of the carpets. That only goes
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: to show that she has talent and taste, observed her husband,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: reproving her with a look. Women should be economical. This
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: poor god was still suffering from the dressmaker's bill. My dear,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: give me curtains at twelve pesos a yard, and you'll
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: see if I put on these rags, retorted the goddess
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: in peaque heavens, you can talk when you have done
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: something fine like that, to give you the right. Meanwhile,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Vassilio stood before the house, lost in the throng of
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: curious spectators, counting those who alighted from their carriages. When
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: he looked upon so many persons happy and confident, when
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: he saw the bride and groom followed by their train
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of fresh and innocent little girls, and reflected that they
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: were going to meet their a horrible death, he was
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: sorry and felt his hatred waning within him. He wanted
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to save so many innocents. He thought of notifying the police,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: but a carriage drove up to set down Padre Salvie
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and Padre Irene, both beaming with content, and like a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: passing cloud, his good intentions vanished. What does it matter
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to me, he asked himself. Let the righteous suffer with
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the sinners. Then he added, to silence his scruples, I'm
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: not an informer. I mustn't abuse the confidence he has
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: placed in me. I owe him him more than I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: do them. He dug my mother's they killed her. What
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: have I to do with them? I did everything possible
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to be good and useful. I tried to forgive and forget.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I suffered every imposition, and only asked that they leave
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: me in peace. I got in no one's way. What
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: have they done to me? Let their mangled limbs fly
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: through the air. We've suffered enough. Three hundred and twenty nine.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Then he saw Simon alight with the terrible lamp in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: his hands, saw him cross the entrance with bowed head,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: as though deep in thought. Basilio felt his heart beat fainter,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: his feet and hands turned cold, while the black silhouette
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of the jeweler assumed fantastic shapes enveloped in flames. There
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: at the foot of the stairway, Simon checked his steps
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: as if in doubt, and Basilio held his breath, but
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the hesitation was transient. Simon raised his head resolutely ascended
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the stairway and disappeared. It then seemed to the student
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that the house was going to blow up at any moment,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and that wall's lamps, guests, roof windows, orchestra would be
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: hurtling through the air like a handful of coals in
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the midst of an infernal explosion. He gazed about him
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and fancied that he saw corpses in place of idle spectators.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: He saw them torn to shreds. It seemed to him
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: that the air was filled with flames. But his calmer
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: self triumphed over this transient hallucination, which was due somewhat
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to his hunger. Until he comes out, there's no danger,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: he said to himself. The Captain General hasn't arrived yet.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: He tried to appear calm and control the convulsive trembling
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: in his limbs, endeavoring to divert his thoughts to other things.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Something within was ridiculing him, saying, if you tremble now
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: before the supreme moment, how will you conduct yourself when
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you see blood flowing, houses burning, and bullets whistling. His
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: excellency arrived, but the young man paid no attention to him.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: He was watching the face of Simon, who was among
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: those that descended to receive him. And he read in
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that implacable countenance the sentence of death for all those men,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: so that fresh terror seized upon him. He felt cold.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: He leaned against the wall, and with his eyes fixed
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: on the windows and his ears cocked, tried to guess
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: what might be happening in the sala. He saw the
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: crowd surround Symon to look at the lamp. He heard
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: congratulations and exclamations of admiration. The words dining room novelty
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: were repeated many times. He saw three hundred thirty the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: general smile and conjecture that the novelty was to be
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: exhibited that very night by the jeweler's arrangement on the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: table whereat his Excellency was to dine. Symon disappeared, followed
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: by a crowd of admirers. At that supreme moment, his
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: good angel triumphed. He forgot his hatreds, He forgot Julie.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: He wanted to save the innocent, Come what might, He
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: would cross the street and try to enter, But Basilio
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: had forgotten that he was miserably dressed. The porter stopped
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: him in, accosting him roughly, and finally, upon his insisting,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: threatened to call the police. Just then Simon came down,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: slightly pale, and the porter turned from Basilio to salute
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the jeweler as though he had been a saint. Passing,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Basilio realized from the expression of Symons's face that he
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: was leaving the faded house forever. That the lamp was
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: lighted Alia jack to est Seized by the instinct of
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: self preservation, he thought then of saving himself. It might
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: occur to any of the guests, through curiosity, to tamper
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: with the wick, and then would come the explosion to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: overwhelm them all. Still, he heard Simons say to the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Caccero the escalta. Hurry terrified, dreading that he might at
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: any moment hear the awful explosion. Basilio hurried as fast
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: as his legs would carry him to get away from
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the accursed spot, but his legs seemed to lack the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: necessary agility. His feet slipped on the sidewalk as though
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: they were moving, but not advancing. The people he met
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: blocked the way, and before he had gone twenty sti
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: he thought that at least five minutes had elapsed some
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: distance away, he stumbled against a young man who was
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: standing with his head thrown back, gazing fixedly at the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: house and in him he recognized Isigani. What are you
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: doing here? He demanded, Come away. Isigani stared at him, vaguely,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: smiled sadly, and again turned his gaze toward the open balconies,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a cross which was revealed the ethereal silhouette of the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: bride clinging to the groom's arm as they moved slowly
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: out of sight. Three hundred and thirty one. Come, Isigani,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Let's get away from that house. Come, Basilio urged in
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a hoarse voice, catching his friend by the arm, Isigani
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: gently shook himself free and continued to stare with the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: same sad smile upon his lips. For God's sake, let's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: get away from here. Why should I go away tomorrow?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: It will not be she. There was so much sorrow
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: in those words that Bassilio for a moment forgot his
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: own ties. Do you want to die? He demanded. Isigani
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: shrugged his shoulders and continued to gaze toward the house.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Basilio again tried to drag him away. Isigani Isigani. Listen
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to me. Let's not waste any time that house is mined.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: It's going to blow up at any moment by the
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: least imprudent act, the least curiosity Isigani, all will perish
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: in its ruins. In its ruins, echoed Isigani, as if
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: trying to understand, but without removing his gaze from the window. Yes,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: in its ruins, Yes, Isigani. For God's sake. Come, I'll
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: explain afterwards. Come, one who has been more unfortunate than
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: either you or I has doomed them all. Do you
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: see that white, clear light, like an electric lamp shining
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: from the azadi? It's the light of death. A lamp
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: charged with dinah in a mine dining room will burst
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and not a rat will escape alive. Come no, answered Isigani,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: shaking his head sadly. I want to stay here. I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: want to see her for the last time. Tomorrow, you see,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: she will be something different. Let fate have its way,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Basilio then exclaimed, hurrying away. Isigani watched his friend rush
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: away with a precipitation that indicated real terror, but continued
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to stare toward the charmed window like the cavalier of Toggenberg,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: waiting for his sweetheart to appear. As Shiller tells now,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the sala was deserted, all having repaired to the dining
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: rooms three hundred thirty two. And it occurred to Isigani
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: that Basilio's fears may have been well founded. He recalled
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the terrified countenance of him, who was always so calm
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and composed, and it set him to thinking. Suddenly an
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: idea appeared clear in his imagination. The house was going
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to blow up, and Polito was there. Polito was going
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to die of frightful death. In the presence of this idea,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: everything was forgotten, jealousy, suffering mental torture, and the generous
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: youth thought only of his love, without reflecting, without hesitation,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: he ran toward the house, and thanks to his stylish
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: clothes and determined mean, easily secured admittance. While these short
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: scenes were occurring in the street, in the dining kiosk
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: of the Greater Gods, there was passed from hand to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: hand a piece of parchment on which were written in
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: read ink these faithful words mean tekel fares to one
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: CHRYSOSTOMOI barra one Crysostomoibara, who is he asked, his excellency,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: handing the paper to his neighbor. A joke in very
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: bad taste, exclaimed Don Custodio, to sign the name of
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a filibuster dead more than ten years A filibuster. It's
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a seditious joke. There being ladies present, Padre Irene looked
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: around for the joker and saw Padre Salvie, who was
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: seated at the right of the Countess, turn as white
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: as his napkin. While he stared at the mysterious words
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: with bulging eyes, the scene of the sphinx recurred to him.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: What's the matter, Padre Salvie, he asked, do you recognize
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: your friend's signature? Padre Salvie did not reply. He made
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: an effort to speak three hundred thirty three, and, without
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: being conscious of what he was doing, wiped his forehead
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: with his napkin. What has happened to your reverence? It
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: is his very handwriting, was the whispered reply, in a
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: scarcely perceptible voice. It's the very handwriting of Ibarra. Leaning
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: against the back of his chair, he let his arms fall,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: as though all strength had deserted him. Uneasiness became converted
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: into fright. They all stared at one another without uttering
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: a single word. His excellency started to rise, but, apprehending
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that such a move would be ascribed to fear, controlled
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: himself and looked about him. There were no soldiers present,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: even the waiters were unknown to him. Let's go on eating, gentlemen,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: he exclaimed, and pay no attention to the joke. But
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: his voice, instead of reassuring, increased the general uneasiness, for
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: it trembled. I don't suppose that that mean tekel ferirs,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: means that were to be assassinated tonight, speculated Don Custodio.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: All remained motionless, but when he added, yet they might
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: poison us, they leaped up from their chairs. The light, meanwhile,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: had begun slowly to fade. The lamp is going out,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: observed the general uneasily. Will you turn up the wick,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: padre Irene. But at that instant, with the swiftness of
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: a flash of lightning, a figure rushed in, overturning a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: chair and knocking a servant down, and in the midst
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: of the general surprise, seized the lamp, rushed to the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: azadi and threw it into the river. The whole thing
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: happened in a second, and the dining kiosk was left
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: in darkness. The lamp had already struck the water. Before
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the servants could cry out thief, thief, and rush toward
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the Azadi. A revolver cried one of them, A revolver
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: quick after the thief, but the figure, more agile than
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: they had, already mounted the balustrade, and before a light
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: could be brought, precipitated itself into the river, striking the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: water with a loud splash. Three hundred and thirty four one.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Spanish etiquette requires a host to welcome his guest with
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the conventional phrase the house belongs to you. Tir to
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar's feast for telling
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the Destruction of Babylon, Daniel v. Twenty five to twenty
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: eight dot tr Contents, Chapter thirty six. Benzebe's afflictions. Immediately
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: upon hearing of the incident, after lights had been brought
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and the scarcely dignified attitudes of the startled gods revealed,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: ben Hisabe, filled with holy indignation, and with the approval
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: of the press censor secured beforehand, hastened home an entresol,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: where he lived in a mess with others, to write
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: an article that would be the sublimest ever penned. Under
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the skies of the Philippines. The Captain General would leave
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: disconsolate if he did not first enjoy his dithrams, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: this ben Zabe, in his kindness of heart, could not allow.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Hence he sacrificed the dinner and ball, nor did he
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: sleep that night. Sonorous exclamations of horror, of indignation, to
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: fancy that the world was smashing to pieces, and the stars,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the eternal stars, were clashing together. Then a mysterious introduction
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: filled with illusions veiled hints. Then an account of the affair,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and the final peroration. He multiplied the flourishes and exhausted
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: all his euphemisms in describing the drooping shoulders and the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: tardy baptism of saladist Excellency had received on his olympian brow.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: He eulogized the agility with which the General had recovered
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a vertical position, placing his head where his legs had been,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and vice versa. Then in tone hymn to Providence for
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: having so solicitously guarded those sacred bones, the paragraph turned
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: out to be so perfect that his excellency appeared as
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: a hero and fell higher. As Victor Hugo said, he wrote, erased,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: added and polished, so that, without wanting inveracity, this was
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: his special merit as a three hundred thirty five journalist.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: The whole would be an epic grand for the seven gods,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: cowardly and base for the unknown thief, who had executed himself,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: terror stricken, and in the very act, convinced of the
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: enormity of his crime. He explained Padre Irene's act of
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: plunging under the table as an impulse of innate valor,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: which the habit of a god of peace and gentleness,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: worn throughout a whole life, had been unable to extinguish.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: For Padre Irene had tried to hurl himself upon the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: thief and had taken a straight course along the sub
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: mental route. In passing he spoke of submarine passages, mentioned
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: a project of Don Custodio's called Attention to the Liberal
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: das education and wide travels of the priest Padre Salvie.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Swoon was the excessive sorrow that took possession of the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: virtuous Franciscan to see the little fruit borne among the
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Indians by his pious sermons, while the immobility and fright
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: of the other guests, among them the countess who sustained
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Padre Salvie, she grabbed him with the serenity and sang
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: freud of heroes ineared to danger in the performance of
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: their duties. Beside whom the Roman senator surprised by the
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Gallic invaders, were nervous schoolgirls frightened at painted cockroaches. Afterwards,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to form a contrast the picture of the thief, fear, madness, confusion,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the fierce look, the distorted features and force of moral
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: superiority in the race his religious ought to see assembled
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: their such august personages. Here came in opportunely a long
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: imprecation harangue, a diatribe against the perversion of good customs,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: hence the necessity of a permanent military tribunal, a declaration
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: of martial law within the limits already so declared special legislation,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: energetic and repressive because it is in every way needful,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: It is of imperative importance to impress upon the malefactors
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and criminals that if the heart is generous and paternal,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: for those who are submissive and obedient to the law.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: The hand is strong, firm, inexorable, hard and severe for
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: those who, against all reason, fail to respect it, and
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: who insult the sacred institutions of them three hundred thirty
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: six Fatherland, Yes, gentlemen, this is demanded not only for
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the welfare of these islands, not only for the welfare
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: of all mankind, but also in the name of Spain,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the honor of the Spanish name, the prestige of the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Iberian people, because before all things else Spaniards we are,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and the flag of Spain, et cetera. He terminated the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: article with this farewell, go in peace, gallant warrior, you,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: who with expert hand have guided the destinies of this
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: country in such calamitous times, go in peace to breathe
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the balmy breezes of Mansanarus. One. We shall remain here,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: like faith sentinels, to venerate your memory, to admire your
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: wise dispositions, to avenge the infamous attempt upon your splendid gift,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: which we will recover, even if we have to dry
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: up the seas. Such a precious relic will be for
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: this country an eternal monument to your splendor, your presence
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: of mind your gallantry. In this rather confused way, he
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: concluded the article and before dawn send it to the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: printing office, of course, with the censer's permit. Then he
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: went to sleep like Napoleon after he had arranged the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: plan for the Battle of Jena. But at dawn he
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: was awakened to have the sheets of copy returned with
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a note from the editor saying that his excellency had
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: positively and severely forbidden any mention of the affair, and
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: had further ordered the denial of any versions and comments
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: that might get abroad, discrediting them as exaggerated rumors. To
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: benz Ab this blow was the murder of a beautiful
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and sturdy child, born and nurtured with such great pain
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: and fatigue. Where now hurl the Catalinarian pride the splendid
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: exhibition of warlike crime avenging materials, and to think that
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: within a month or two he was going to leave
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the Philippines and the article could not be published in Spain,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: since how could he say those things about the criminals
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: of Madrid? Where other ideas prevailed, Where three hundred and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: thirty seven extenuating circumstances were sought, Where facts were weighed
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: where there were juries and so on. Articles such as
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: his were like certain poisonous RUMs that are manufactured in Europe,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: good enough to be sold among the Negroes, good for
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: negroes too, with the difference that if the Negroes did
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: not drink them, they would not be destroyed. While Benzebe's articles,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: whether the Filipinos read them or not, had their effect.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: If only some other crime might be committed today or tomorrow,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: he mused with the thought of that child dead. Before
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: seeing the light those frozen buds, and feeling his eyes
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: filled with tears, he dressed himself to call upon the editor,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: but the editor shrugged his shoulders. His excellency had forbidden it, because,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: if it should be divulged that seven of the greater
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: gods had let themselves be surprised and robbed by a
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: nobody while they brandished knives and forks, that would endanger
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the integrity of the fatherland. So he had ordered that
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: no search be made for the lamb or the thief,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: and had recommended to his successors that they should not
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: run the risk of dining in any private house without
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: being surrounded by halberdiers and guards, as those who knew
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: anything about the events that knight in Dawn Timoteo's house were,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: for the most part military officials and government employees. It
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: was not difficult to suppress the affair in public, for
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: it concerned the integrity of the fatherland. Before this name,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: benze bowed his head heroically, thinking about Abraham Guzman Albueno,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: free or at least Brutus and other heroes of antiquity
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: such as sacrifice could not remain unrewarded, the gods of
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: journalism being pleased with Abraham benzeb Almost upon the hour
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: came the reporting angel bearing the sacrificial lamb in the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: shape of an assault committed at a country house on
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the Pacigue, where certain friars three hundred thirty eight spending
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the heated season. Here was his opportunity, and benzeb praised
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: his gods. The robbers got over two thousand pesos, leaving
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: badly wounded one friar and two servants. The curate defended
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: himself as well as he could, behind a chair which
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: was smashed in his hands. Wait, wait, said benzebe, taking notes.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Forty or fifty outlaws traitorously revolvers, bolos, shotguns, pistols, lion
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: at bay, chair splinters flying, barbarously wounded ten thousand pesos.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: So great was his enthusiasm that he was not content
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: with mere reports, but proceeded in person to the scene
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: of the crime, composing on the road a homeric description
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: of the fight, a harangue in the mouth of the leader,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: a scornful defiance on the part of the priest. All
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the metaphors and similes applied to his excellency, Padre Irene
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: and Padre Salvie would exactly fit the wounded friar, and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the description of the thief would serve for each of
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the outlaws. The imprecation could be expanded, since he could
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: talk of religion, of the faith of charity, of the
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: ringing of bells, of what the Indians owed to the friars.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: He could get sentimental and melt into Castellarian four epigrams
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and lyric periods. The senoritas of the city would read
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the article and murmur Ben's abe bold as a lion
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: and tender as a lamb. But when he reached the scene,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: to his great astonishment, he learned that the wounded friar
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: was no other than Padre Kamora sentenced by his provincial
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: to expiate in the pleasant country house on the banks
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: of the Pasigis Pranks in Tienni. He had a slight
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: scratch on his hand and a bruise on his head,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: received from flattening himself out on the floor. The robbers
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: numbered three or four, armed only with bolos, the sum
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: stolen fifty pesos. It won't do, exclaimed benz Abe. Shut up,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about. How don't I
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: know unyals three hundred and thirty nine. Don't be a fool.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: The robbers must have numbered more Ewink's linger. So they
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: had quite an altercation. What chiefly concerned Benze was not
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: to throw away the article, to give importance to the
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: affair so that he could use the peroration. But a
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: fearful rumor cut short their dispute. The robbers caught had
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: made some important revelations. One of the outlaws under Matangolin
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Cape sang Tales, had made an appointment with them to
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: join his band in Santa Mesa, thence to sack the
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: conventos and houses of the wealthy. They would be guided
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: by a Spaniard, tall and sunburned with white hair, who
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: said that he was acting under the orders of the general,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: whose great friend he was, and they had been further
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: assured that the artillery and various regiments would join them,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Wherefore they were to entertain no fear at all. The
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Tulussans would be pardoned and have a third part of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: the booty assigned to them. The signal was to have
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: been a cannon shot, But having waited for it in vain,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the Tulussanes, thinking themselves deceived, separated, some going back to
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: their homes, some returning to the mountains, vowing vengeance on
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the Spaniard, who had thus failed twice to keep his word.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Then they, the robbers caught, had decided to do something
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: on their own account, attacking the country house that they
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: found closest at hand, resolving religiously to give two thirds
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: of the booty to the Spaniard with white Hair, if
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: perchance he should call upon them for it, the description
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: being recognized as that of Simon. The declaration was received
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: as an absurdity, and the robbers subjected to all kinds
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: of tortures, including the electric machine, for his impious blasphemy.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: But news of the disappearance of the jeweler having attracted
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the attention of the whole Escualta, and the sacks of
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: powder and great quantities of cartridges having been discovered in
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: his house, the story began to wear an appearance of truth.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Mystery began to enrapt the affair, enveloping it in clouds.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: There three hundred forty were whispered conversations, coughs, suspicious looks,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: suggestive comments, and trite secondhand remarks. Those who were on
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: the inside were unable to get over their astonishment. They
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: put on long faces, turned pale, and but little was
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: wanting for many persons to lose their minds in realizing
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: certain things that had before passed unnoticed. We've had a
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: narrow escape. Who would have said. In the afternoon, Ben's Abe,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: his pockets filled with revolvers and cartridges, went to see
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Don Custodio, whom he found hard at work over a
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: project against American jewelers. In a hushed voice, he whispered
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: between the palms of his hands into the journalist's ere
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: mysterious words really questioned Ben's Abe, slapping his hand on
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: his pocket and paling visibly wherever he may be found.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: The sentence was completed with an expressive pantomime. Don Custodio
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: raised both arms to the height of his face, with
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: the right more bent than the left, turned the palms
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: of his hands toward the floor, closed one eye, and
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: made two movements in advance. Ssh ssh, He hissed, and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: the diamonds inquired Benzabe if they find him. He went
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: through another pantomime, with the fingers of his right hand,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: spreading them out and clenching them together like the closing
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: of a fan, clutching out with them somewhat in the
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: manner of the wings of a windmill, sweeping imaginary objects
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: toward itself with practiced skill. Benz Abe responded with another pantomime,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: opening his eyes wide, arching his eyebrows, and sucking in
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: his breath eagerly, as though nutritious air had just been discovered.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Sssh three hundred and forty one one a town in
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Siudad Real Province, Spain that tir To The italicized words
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: are in English in the original dot Tir free a
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Spanish hero whose chief exploit was the capture of Gibraltar
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: from the Moors in thirteen o eight. Dot tir for
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Emilio Castela eighteen thirty two to eighteen ninety nine, generally
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: regarded as the greatest of span Banish orators dot Tiar Contents,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: chapter thirty seven, The Mystery to Do as He Sabbe.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Notwithstanding so many precautions, rumors reached the public, even though
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: quite changed and mutilated. On the following night, they were
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the theme of comment in the house of Ornda, a
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: rich jewel merchant in the industrious district of Santa Cruz,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and the numerous friends of the family gave attention to
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: nothing else. They were not indulging in cards or playing
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the piano, while little Teeney, the youngest of the girls,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: became bored playing choonkaw by herself without being able to
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: understand the interest awakened by assaults, conspiracies and sacks of powder.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: When there were in the seven holes so many beautiful
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: cowries that seemed to be winking at her in unison
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: and smiled with their tiny mouths half opened, begging to
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: be carried up to the home. Even Iigani, who when
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: he came always used to play with her and allow
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: himself to be beautifully cheated, did not come at her call.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: For Isigani was gloomily and silently listening to something chi Choy,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: the silversmith was relating Momoi, the betrothed of Sencha, the
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: eldest of the daughters, a pretty and vivacious girl rather
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: given to joking, had left the window, where he was
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: accustomed to spend his evenings in amorous discourse, and this
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: action seemed to be very annoying to the lory, whose
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: cage hung from the eaves. There. The laury endeared to
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the house from its ability to greet everybody in the
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: morning with marvelous phrases of love. Capitana Lowling, the energetic
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: and intelligent Capitana Loling, had her account book opened before her,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: but she three hundred forty two, neither read nor wrote
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: in it, nor was her attention fixed on the trays
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: of loose pearls, nor on the diamonds. She had completely
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: forgotten herself, and was all ears her husband himself, the
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: great Capitan touring Oi, a transformation of the name Domingo,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: the happiest man in the district, without other occupation than
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: to dress well, eat loaf, and gossip while his whole
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: family worked and toiled, had not gone to join his coterie,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: but was listening, between fear and emotion to the hair
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: raising news of the lang Chichoi. Nor was reason for
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: all this lacking. Chi Choe had gone to deliver some
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: work for Dantemo Teo Peliz, a pair of ear rings
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: for the bride, at the very time when they were
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: tearing down the kiosk that on the previous night had
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: served as a dining room for the foremost officials. Here
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Chichoe turned pale and his hair stood on end. Naku,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: He exclaimed, sacks and sacks of powder, Sacks of powder
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: under the floor, in the roof, under the table, under
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: the chairs, everywhere. It's lucky none of the workmen were smoking.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Who put those sacks of powder there? Asked Capitana Lowling,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: who was brave and did not turn pale as did
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: the enamored Momoi. But Momoi had attended the wedding, so
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: his posthumous emotion can be appreciated. He had been near
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: the kiosk. That's what no one can explain, replied Chichoe.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Who would have any interest in breaking up the fiesta?
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: There couldn't have been more than one, as the celebrated
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: lawyer Senor Pasta, who was there on a visit, declared
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: either an enemy of Don Timoteo's or a rival of Juanito's.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: The Oranda girls turned instinctively toward Isigani, who smiled silently,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Hide yourself. Capitana Loling advised him, they may accuse you.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Hide again. Isigani smiled but said nothing. Don Timoteo continued,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: chichioly did not know to three hundred forty three whom
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: to attribute the deed. He himself superintended the work. He
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: and his friend Simon, and nobody else. The house was
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: thrown into an uproar. The lieutenant of the guard came
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: and after enjoining secrecy upon everybody, they sent me away.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: But but but stammered the trembling momoi nacu ejaculated Sencha,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: gazing at her fiancee and trembling sympathetically to remember that
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: he had been at the fiesta, this young man. If
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: the house had blown up, she stared at her sweetheart
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: passionately and admired his courage. If it had blown up,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: no one in the whole of kye Onlolag would have
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: been left alive, concluded Capitan Toringoi, feigning valor and indifference.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: In the presence of his family, I left in consternation
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: resumed Chi Choe, thinking about how if a mere spark
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: a cigarette had fallen, if a lamp had been overturned.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: At the present moment, we should have neither a general,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: nor an archbishop, nor any one, not even a government clerk.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: All who were at the fiesta last night annihilated Virgin Santissima.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: This young man Sasmeriosep, exclaimed Capitana Lowling. All our debtors
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: were there, Susmeriosep, And we have a house near there.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Who could it have been? Now you may know about it,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: added Chi Choe in a whisper, but you must keep
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: it a secret. This afternoon I met a friend, a
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: clerk in an office, and in talking about the affair,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: he gave me the clue to the mystery. He had
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: it from some government employees. Who do you suppose put
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the sacks of powder there? Many shrugged their shoulders, while
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Capy tan Toringoy merely looked askance at Isigani, the friars Kiroga,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: the Chinaman, some student Mackareig three hundred and forty four.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Cappy tan Toringoy coughed and glanced at Isigani, while Chichoi
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: shook his head and smiled the jeweler Simon, Simon. The
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: profound silence of amazement followed these words, Simon, the evil
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: genius of the captain General, the rich traitor to whose
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: house they had gone to buy unset gems, Simon, who
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: had received the Ornda girls with great courtesy and had
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: paid them fine compliments. For the very reason that the
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: story seemed absurd, it was believed credo kea absurdam, said
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Saint Augustine. But wasn't Simon at the fiesta last night,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: asked Sencha. Yes, said MOMOI, but now I remember he
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: left the house just as we were sitting down to
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: the dinner. He went to get his wedding gift. But
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't he a friend of the generals. Wasn't he a
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: partner of Don Tomoteo's. Yes, he made himself a partner
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: in order to strike the blow and kill all the Spaniards. Aha,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: cried Sencha. Now I understand what you didn't want to believe, Auntente.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Symon is the devil, and he has bought up the
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: souls of all the Spaniards. Aunt Tente said, so. Capitana, lolling,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: crossed herself and looked uneasily toward the jewels, fearing to
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: see them turn into live coals, while Capitan Toringway took
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  Speaker 1: off the ring which had come from Simon. Simon has
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: disappeared without leaving any traces, added Chiccholy. The civil guard
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: is searching for him. Yes, observed Sencha crossing herself, searching
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: for the devil. Now many things were explained, Simons's fabulous
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: wealth and the peculiar smell in his house, the smell
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: of sulfur. Bindi, another of the daughters, a frank and
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: lovely girl, remembered having seen blue flames in the three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty five Jeweler's house one afternoon when she
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and her mother had gone there to buy jewels. Isigani
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: listened attentively but said nothing. So last night ventured Momoi.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Last night echoed Sencha. Between curiosity and fear. Momoi hesitated,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: but the face Sensha put On banished his fear. Last night,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: while we were eating, there was a disturbance. The light
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: in the General's dining room went out. They say that
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: some unknown person stole the lamp that was presented by Simon.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: A thief. One of the black hand, Isigani arose to
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: walk back and forth. Did they catch him? He jumped
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: into the river before anybody recognized him. Some say he
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: was a Spaniard, some a Chinaman, and others an Indian.
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  Speaker 1: It's believed that with the lamp added chi choe, he
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: was going to set fire to the house, then the powder.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Momoi again shuddered, but noticing that Sencha was watching him,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: try to control himself. What a pity, he exclaimed, with
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: an effort, how wickedly the thief acted. Everybody would have
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: been killed. Sencha stared at him in fright. The women
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: crossed themselves, while Capitan Touringoi, who was afraid of politics,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: made a move to go away. Momoi turned to Isigani,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: who observed with an enigmatic smile, it's always wicked to
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: take what doesn't belong to you. If that thief had
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: known what it was all about and had been able
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: to reflect, surely he wouldn't have done as he did. Then,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: after a pause, he added, for nothing in the world
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: would I want to be in his place. So they
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: continued their comments and conjectures until an hour later, when
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Aigani bade the family farewell to return forever to his
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  Speaker 1: uncle's side. Three hundred and forty six Contents, Chapter thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Fatality Metangloin was the terror of Luzan. His band had
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: as leaf appear in one province where it was least
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: expected as make a descent upon another that was preparing
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: to resist it. It burned a sugar mill in Batangas
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: and destroyed the crops. On the following day, it murdered
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: the Justice of the Peace of Tiani, and on the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: next took possession of the town of Kvida, carrying off
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the arms from the town hall. The central provinces from
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Tayabas to Pangasinan suffered from his depredations, and his bloody
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: name extended from all Bay in the south to Kagayan
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: in the north. The towns, disarmed through mistrust on the
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: part of a weak government, fell easy prey into his hands.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: At his approach, the fields were abandoned by the farmers,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: the herds were scattered, while a trail of blood and
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: fire marked his passage. Mettanglin laughed at the severe measures
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: ordered by the government against the Tulusans, since from them
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: only the people in the outlying villages suffered, being captured
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: and maltreated if they resisted the band, and if they
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: made peace with it, being flogged and deported by the government,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: provided they completed the journey and did not meet with
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: a fatal accident on the way. Thanks to these terrible alternatives,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: many of the country folk decided to enlist under his command.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: As a result of this reign of terror, trade among
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: the towns, already languishing, died out completely. The rich dared
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: not travel, and the poor fear to be arrested by
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the civil guard, which, being under obligation to pursue the Tulusans,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: often seized the first person encountered and subjected him to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: unspeakable tortures. In its impotence, the three hundred forty seven
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: government put on a show of energy toward the persons
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: whom it suspected, in order that, by force of cruelty,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: the people should not realize its weakness. The fear that
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: prompted such measures. A string of these hapless suspect, some
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: six or seven, with their arms tied behind them, bound
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: together like a bunch of human meat, was one afternoon
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: marching through the excessive heat along a road that skirted
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  Speaker 1: a mountain, escorted by ten or twelve guards armed with rifles.
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  Speaker 1: Their bayonets gleamed in the sun, the barrels of their
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: rifles became hot, and even the sage leaves in their
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: helmets scarcely served to temper the effect of the deadly
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: may sun. Deprived of the use of their arms, and
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: pressed close against one another to save rope, The prisoners
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: moved along, almost uncovered and unshod, he being the best off,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: who had a handkerchief twisted around his head, panting, suffering,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: covered with dust which perspiration converted into mud. They felt
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: their brains melting. They saw lights dancing before them, red
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: spots floating in the air. Exhaustion and dejection were pictured
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: in their faces, desperation, wrath, something indescribable, the look of
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: one who dies, cursing, of a man who is weary
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: of life, who hates himself, who blasphemes against God. The
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: strongest lowered their heads to rub their faces against the
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: dusky backs of those in front of them, and thus
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: wipe away the sweat that was blinding them. Many were limping,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: But if any one of them happened to fall and
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: thus delay the march, he would hear a curse. As
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: a soldier ran up, brandishing a branch torn from a tree,
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  Speaker 1: and forced him to rise by striking about in all directions.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: The string then started to run, dragging, rolling in the dust.
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  Speaker 1: The fallen one who howled and begged to be killed.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: But perchance he succeeded in getting on his feet, and
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: then went along, crying like a child and cursing the
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  Speaker 1: hour he was born. The human cluster halted at times
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: while the guards drank, and then the prisoners continued on
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: their way, with three hundred forty eight parched mouths, darkened brains,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: and hearts full of curses. Thirst was for these wretches
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: the least of their troubles. Move on, you, sons of
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: cried a soldier, again, refreshed, hurling the insult common among
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: the lower classes of Filipinos. The branch whistled and fell
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: on any shoulder whatsoever the nearest one, or at times
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: upon a face, to leave a welt, at first white,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: then red, and later dirty with the dust of the road.
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  Speaker 1: Move on, you cowards. At times a voice yelled in Spanish,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: deepening its tone. Cowards repeated the mountain echoes. Then the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: cowards quickened their pace under a sky of red hot
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: iron over a burning road, lashed by the knotty branch,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: which was worn into shreds on their livid skins. A
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Siberian winter would perhaps be tender than the mace son
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: of the Philippines. Yet among the soldiers there was one
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: who looked with disapproving eyes upon so much want and cruelty,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: as he marched along silently with his brows knit in disgust.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: At length, seeing that the guard, not satisfied with the branch,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: was kicking the prisoners that fell, he could no longer
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: restrain himself, but cried out impatiently, here Mao Tang let
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: them alone. Mao Tang turned toward him in surprise. What's
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: it to you, Carolino, he asked to me. Nothing but
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: it hurts me, replied Carolino. They're men like ourselves. It's
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: plain that you're new to the business, retorted Mao Tang,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: with a compassionate smile. How did you treat the prisoners
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: in the war with more consideration, surely, answered Carolino. Mao
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Tang remained silent for a moment, and then, apparently having
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: discovered the reason, calmly rejoined, Ah, it's because they are
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: enemies and fight us, while these these are our own countrymen. Then,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: drawing nearer to Carolino, he whispered, how three hundred forty
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: nine stupid you are? They're treated so in order that
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: they may attempt to resist or to escape, and then bang.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Carolino made no reply. One of the prisoners then begged
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: that they let him stop for a moment. This is
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: a dangerous place, answered the corporal, gazing uneasily toward the mountain.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Move on, move on, echoed Mautang, and his lash whistled.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: The prisoner twisted himself around to stare at him with
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: reproachful eyes. You are more cruel than the spaniard himself,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: he said. Mau Tang replied with more blows, when suddenly
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: a bullet whistled, followed by a loud report. Mautang dropped
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: his rifle, uttered an oath, and, clutching at his breast
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: with both hands, fell, spinning into a heap. The prisoner
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: saw him writhing in the dust, with blood spurting from
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: his mouth. Halt, called the corporal, suddenly turning pale. The
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: soldiers stopped and stared about them. A wisp of smoke
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: rose from a thicket on the height above. Another bullet
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: sang to its accompanying report, and the corporal, wounded in
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: the thigh, doubled over, vomiting curses. The column was attacked
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: by men hidden among the rocks above. Sullen with raged,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: the corporal motion toward the string of prisoners and laconically
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: ordered fire. The wretches fell up upon their knees, filled
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: with consternation as they could not lift their hands. They
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: begged for mercy by kissing the dust or bowing their heads.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: One talked of his children, another of his mother, who
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: would be left unprotected. One promised money, another called upon God.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: But the muzzles were quickly lowered, and a hideous volley
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: silenced them. All then began the sharp shooting against those
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: who were behind the rocks above, over which a light
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: cloud of smoke began to hover. To judge from the
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: scarcity of their shots, the invisible enemies could not have
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: more than three rifles. As they advanced firing, the guards
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: sought cover behind three hundred fifty tree trunks, or crouched down.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: As they attempted to scale the height. Splintered rocks leaped up,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: broken twigs fell from trees, patches of earth were torn up,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: and the first guard who attempted the ascent rolled back
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: with a bullet through his shoulder. The hidden enemy had
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: the advantage of position, but the valiant guards, who did
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: not know how to flee, were on the point of retiring,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: for they had paused, unwilling to advance. That fight against
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: the invisible unnerved them. Smoke and rocks alone could be seen.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: Not a voice was heard, not a shadow appeared. They
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: seemed to be fighting with the mountain. Shoot Carolino, what
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: are you aiming at? Called the corporal. At that instant,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: a man appeared upon a rock, making signs with his rifle.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Shoot him, ordered the corporal with a foul loath. Three
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: guards obeyed the order, but the man continued standing there,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: calling out at the top of his voice something unintelligible.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: Carolino paused, thinking that he recognized something familiar about that figure,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: which stood out plainly in the sunlight. But the corporal
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: threatened to tie him up if he did not fire,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: so Carolino took aim, and the report of his rifle
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: was heard. The man on the rock spun around and
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: disappeared with a cry that left Carollino horror stricken. Then
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: followed a rustling in the bushes, indicating that those within
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: were scattering in all directions, so the soldiers boldly advanced,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: now that there was no more resistance. Another man appeared
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: upon the rock waving a spear, and they fired at him.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: He sank down slowly, catching at the branch of a tree,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: but with another volley, fell face downwards on the rock.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: The guards climbed on nimbly with bayonets fixed, ready for
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: a hand to hand fight. Carolino alone moved forward reluctantly
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: with a wandering, gloomy look, the cry of the man
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: struck by his bullet still ringing in his ears. The
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty one first to reach the spot
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: found an old man dying stretched out on the rock.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: He plunged his bayonet into the body, but the old
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: man did not even wink, his eyes being fixed on
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Carolino with an indescribable gaze, while with his bony hand
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: he pointed to something behind the rock. The soldiers turned
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: to see caroline frightfully pale, his mouth hanging open, with
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: a look in which glimmered the last spark of reason
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: for Carolino, who was no other than Topano Cape sang
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: Tale's son, and who had just returned from the Carolines,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: recognized in the dying man his grandfather tandang Sello. No
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: longer able to speak, the old man's dying eyes uttered
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: a whole poem of grief and then a corpse. He
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: still continued to point to something behind the rock three
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two Contents, Chapter thirty nine conclusion. In
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: his solitary retreat on the shore of the sea, whose
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: mobile surface was visible through the open windows, extending outward
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: until it mingled with the horizon, Padre Florentino was relieving
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: the monotony by playing on his harmonium sad and melancholy tunes,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: to which the sonorous roar of the surf and the
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: sighing of the tree tops of the neighboring would serve
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: as accompaniments. Notes long full, mournful, as a prayer, yet
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: still vigorous, escaped from the old instrument. Padre Florentino, who
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: was an accomplished musician, was improvising, and as he was alone,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: gave free rein to the sadness in his heart. For
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: the truth was that the old man was very sad.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: His good friend Don Tibercio de Espadana had just left
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: him fleeing from the persecution of his wife. That morning,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: he had received a note from the lieutenant of the
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Civil Guard which ran, thus, my dear Chaplain, I have
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: just received from the commandan to telegram that says spaniard
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: hidden house Padre Florentino capture forward alive dead. As the
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: telegram is quite explicit, warn your friend not to be
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: there when I come to arrest him at eight to night. Affectionately,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: Perez burned this note, te that Vivictorina don Tibercio had
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: stammered as she see capable of having me s shot.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Padre Florentino was unable to reassure him. Vainly, he pointed
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: out to him that the word codra should have read
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: cadra one, and that the hidden Spaniard could not be
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: done three hundred and fifty three to Bersio. But the
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: jeweler Simon, who two days before had arrived wounded and
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: a fugitive begging for shelter. But Don Tiburcio would not
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: be convinced. Cadro was his own lameness, his personal description,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: and it was an intrigue of Victorinus to get him
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: back alive or dead, as Isigoni had written for Manila.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: So the poor Ulysses had left the priest's house to
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: conceal himself in the hut of a woodcutter. No doubt
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: was entertained by Padre Florentino that the Spaniard wanted was
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: the jeweler Simon, who had arrived mysteriously himself carrying the
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: jewel chest, bleeding, morose, and exhausted. With the free and
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: cordial Filipino hospitality, the priest had taken him in without
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: asking indiscreet questions, and as news of the events in
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Manila had not yet reached his ears, he was unable
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: to understand the situation clearly. The only conjecture that occurred
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: to him was that the General, the Jeweler's friend and protector,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: being gone, probably his enemies, the victims of wrong and abuse,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: were now rising and calling for vengeance, and that the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: acting governor was pursuing him to make him disgorge the
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: wealth he had had accumulated, hence his flight. But whence
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: came his wounds, had he tried to commit suicide? Were
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: they the result of personal revenge or were they merely
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: caused by an accident, as Simons claimed, had they been
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: received in escaping from the force that was pursuing him.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: This last conjecture was the one that seemed to have
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: the greatest appearance of probability, being further strengthened by the
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: telegram received in Simmons decided unwillingness from the start to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: be treated by the doctor from the capital. The jeweler
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: submitted only to the ministrations of Don Tiburcio, and even
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: to them with marked distrust. In this situation, Padre Florentino
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: was asking himself what three hundred and fifty four line
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: of conduct he should pursue. When the civil guard came
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: to arrest Simon. His condition would not permit his removal,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: much less a long journey. But the telegram set alive
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: or dead. Padre Florentine ceased playing and approached the window
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: to gaze out at the sea, whose desolate surface was
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: without a ship, without a sail. It gave him no suggestion.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: A solitary islet outlined in the distance, spoke only of
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: solitude and made the space more lonely. Infinity is at
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: times despairingly mute. The old man was trying to analyze
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: the sad and ironical smile with which Symon had received
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: the news that he was to be arrested. What did
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: that smile mean? And that other smile, still sadder and
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: more ironical, with which he received the news that they
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: would not come before aid at night? What did all
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: this mystery signify? Why did Symon refuse to hide? There
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: came into his mind the celebrated saying of Saint John Chrisostom,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: when he was defending the eunuch Eutropius. Never was a
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: better time than this to say, vanity of vanities and
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: all his vanity. Yes, that Simon, so rich, so powerful,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: so feared a week ago, and now more unfortunate than Eutropius,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: was seeking refuge not at the altars of a church,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: but in the miserable house of a poor native priest,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: hidden in the forest, on the solitary seashore. Vanity of
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: vanities and all his vanity. That man would within a
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: few hours be a prisoner, dragged from the bed where
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: he lay, without respect for his condition, without consideration for
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: his wounds, dead or alive, his enemies demanded him, How
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: could he save him? Where could he find the moving
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: accents of the Bishop of Constantinople. What weight would his
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: weak words have the words of a native priest whose
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: own humiliation the same Simon had in his better days
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: seemed to applaud and encourage. But Padre Florentine no longer
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: recalled the indifferent reception that two months before the jeweler
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: had accorded to him when he had tried to interest
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: him in favor of Isogani three hundred and fifty five
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: than a prisoner on account of his imprudent chivalry. He
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: forgot the activity Simon had displayed in urging Paulita's marriage,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: which had plunged Iigani into the fearful misanthrope that was
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: worrying his uncle. He forgot all these things and thought
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: only of the a sick man's plight and his own
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: obligations as a host. Until his senses reeled, where must
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: he hide him to avoid his falling into the clutches
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: of the authorities. But the person chiefly concerned was not worrying.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: He was smiling. While he was pondering over these things.
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  Speaker 1: The old man was approached by a servant, who said
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: that the sick man wished to speak with him. So
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: he went into the next room a clean and well
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: ventilated apartment with a floor of wide boards, smoothed and polished,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: and simply furnished with big heavy arm chairs of ancient design,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: without varnish or paint. At one end there was a
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: large camegon bed with its four posts to support the canopy,
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  Speaker 1: and beside it a table covered with bottles, lint, and bandages.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: A praying desk at the feet of a christ in
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: a scanty library led to the suspicion that it was
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: the priest's own bedroom given up to his guest according
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: to the Filipino custom of offering to the stranger the
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: best table, the best room, and the best bed in
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: the house. Upon seeing the windows opened war to admit
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: freely the healthful sea breeze and the echoes of its
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: eternal lament, no one in the Philippines would have said
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: that a sick person was to be found there, since
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: it is the custom to close all the windows and
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: stop up all the cracks just as soon as any
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: one catches a cold or gets an insignificant headache. Padre
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: Florentine looked toward the bed and was astonished to see
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: that the sick man's face had lost its tranquil and
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: ironical expression. Hidden grief seemed to knit his brows. Anxiety
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: was depicted in his looks. His lips were curled in
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: a smile of pain. Are you suffering? Senor Simon asked
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: the priest, solicitously, going to his side some But in
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: a little while I shall cease to suffer, he replied
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  Speaker 1: with a shake of his head. Three hundred and fifty six.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: Padre Florentine clasped his hands in fright, suspecting that he
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: understood the terrible truth. My god, what have you done?
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  Speaker 1: What have you taken? He reached toward the bottles. It's
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: useless now, there's no remedy at all, answered Symon with
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: a pained smile. What did you expect me to do
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: before the clock strikes eight? Alive or dead? Dead? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: But alive? No? My god, what have you done? Be
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  Speaker 1: calm urged the sick man with a wave of his hand.
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  Speaker 1: What's done is done. I must not fall into anybody's hands.
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  Speaker 1: My secret would be torn from me. Don't get excited,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: don't lose your head. It's useless. Listen, the night is
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: coming on and there's no time to be lost. I
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: must tell you my secret and intrust to you my
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: last request. I must lay my life open before you
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: at the supreme moment. I want to lighten myself of
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: a load. I want to clear up a doubt of mine. You,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: who believe so firmly in God, I want you to
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: tell me if there is a God but an antidote,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: send your symon. I have ether chloroform. The priest began
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: to search for a flask, until Symon cried impatiently, useless.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: It's useless. Don't waste time. I'll go away with my secret.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: The bewildered priest fell down at his desk and prayed
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: at the feet of the Christ, hiding his face in
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: his hands. Then he arose serious and grave, as if
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: he had received from his God all the force, all
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: the dignity, all the authority of the judge of consciences.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: Moving a chair to the head of the bed, he
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: prepared to listen. At the first word Symon murmured. When
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: he told his real name, the old priest started back
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: and gazed at him in terror. Whereat the sick man
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: smiled bitterly. Taken by surprise, the priest was not master
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: of himself, but he soon recovered and covering his face
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: with a handkerchief. Again bent over to listen, Symon related
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: his sorrowful story how thirteen years, three hundred and fifty
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: seven before he had returned from Europe, filled with hopes
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: and smiling illusions, having come back to marry a girl
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: whom he disposed to do good and forgive all who
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: had wronged him, just so they would let him live
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: in peace. But it was not so. A mysterious hand
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: involved him in the confusion of an uprising plan by
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: his enemies name fortune, love, future, liberty. All were lost,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: and he escaped only through the heroism of a friend.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: Then he swore vengeance with the wealth of his family,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: which had been buried in a wood. He had fled,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: had gone to foreign lands and engaged in trade. He
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: took part in the war in Cuba, aiding first one
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: side and then another, but always profiting. There he made
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: the acquaintance of the general, then a major, whose good
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: will he won first by loans of money, and afterwards
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: he made a friend of him by the knowledge of
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: criminal secrets. With his money, he had been able to
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: secure the general's appointment, and once in the Philippines he
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: had used him as a blind tool, and incited him
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: to all kinds of injustice, availing himself of his insatiable
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: lust for gold. The confession was long and tedious, but
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: during the whole of it the confessor made no further
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: sign of surprise and rarely interrupted the sick man. It
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: was night when Padre Florentino, wiping the perspiration from his face,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: arose and began to meditate. Mysterious darkness flooded the room,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: so that the moonbeams entering through the window filled it
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: with vague lights and vaporous reflections. Into the midst of
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: the silence, the priest's voice broke, sad and deliberate, but consoling.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: God will forgive you, Senor Simon, he said, He knows
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: that we are fallible. He has seen that you have suffered,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: and in ordaining that the chastisement for your faults should
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: come as death from the very ones you have instigated
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: to crime, we can see his infinite mercy. He has
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: frustrated your plans one by one, the best conceived, first
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: by the death of Maria Clara, then by a lack
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: of preparation. Then, in some mysterious way, let us bow
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: to his will and render him thanks three hundred and
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: fifty eight. According to you, then, feebly responded the sick man,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: His will is that these islands should continue in the
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: condition in which they suffer. Finish the priest, seeing that
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: the other hesitated. I don't know, sir, I can't read
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: the thought of the inscrutable. I know that he has
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: not abandoned those peoples who, in their supreme moments have
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: trusted in him and made him the judge of their cause.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: I know that his arm has never failed. When justice
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: long trampled upon and every recourse gone, the oppressed have
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: taken up the sword to fight for home and wife
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: and children, for their inalienable rights, which, as the German
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: poet says, shine ever there above, unextinguished and inextinguishable, like
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: the eternal stars themselves. No God is justice. He cannot
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: abandon his cause, the cause of liberty, without which no
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: justice is possible. Why then, has he denied me his aid,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: asked the sick man, in a voice charged with bitter complaint.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: Because you chose means that he could not sanction, was
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: the severe reply. The glory of saving a country is
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: not for him who has contributed to its ruin. You
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: have believed that what crime and iniquity have defiled and deformed,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: another crime and another iniquity can purify and redeem wrong.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: Hate never produces anything but monsters and crime criminals. Love
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: alone realizes wonderful works. Virtue alone can save no. If
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: our country has ever to be free, it will not
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: be through vice and crime. It will not be so
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: by corrupting its sons, deceiving some, and bribing others. No
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: redemption presupposes virtue, Virtue, sacrifice, and sacrifice. Love well, I
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: accept your explanation, rejoined the sick man after a pause.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: I have been mistaken. But because I have been mistaken,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: will that God deny liberty to a people and yet
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: save many who are much worse criminals than I am?
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: What is my mistake compared to the crimes of our rulers?
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: Why has that God to give more heat to my
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: iniquity than to the cries of so many innocents? Why
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: has he not stricken me down and then made the
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: people triumph? Why three hundred and fifty nine does he
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: let so many worthy and just one suffer and look
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: complacently upon their tortures That just and the worthy must
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: suffer in order that their ideas may be known and extended.
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  Speaker 1: You must shake or shatter the vase to spread its perfume.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: You must smite the rock to get the spark. There
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: is something providential in the persecutions of tyrants, Senor Simon.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: I knew it, murmured the sick man, and therefore I
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: encouraged the tyranny. Yes, my friend, but more corrupt influences
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: than anything else were spread. You fostered the social rottenness
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: without sowing an idea. From this fermentation of vices, loathing
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: alone could spring, and if anything were born overnight, it
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: would be at best a mushroom, for mushrooms only can
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: spring spontaneously from filth. True, it is that the vices
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: of the government are fatal to it. They cause its death,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: but they kill also the society in whose bosom they
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: are developed. An immoral government presupposes a demoralized people, a
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: conscienceless administration, greedy and servile citizens in the settled parts,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: outlaws and brigands in the mountains like master, like slave,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: like government, like country. A brief pause ensued broken at
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: length by the sick man's voice. Then what can be done?
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: Suffer and work, Suffer, work, echoed the sick man bitterly. Ah,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: it's easy to say that when you are not suffering,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: when the work is rewarded. If your God demands such
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: great sacrifices from man, man who can scarcely count upon
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: the present and doubts the future, if you had seen
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: what I have, the miserable, the wretched, suffering unspeakable tortures
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: for crimes. They have not committed murder to cover up
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: the faults and incapacity of others. Poor fathers of families
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: torn from their homes to work to no purpose upon
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: highways that are destroyed each day and seem only to
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: serve for sinking families into want. Ah. To suffer to
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: work is the will of God. Convince them that their
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: murder is there three hundred and sixty salvation, that their
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: work is the prosperity of the home. To suffer to work,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: what God is that? A very just God? Senor Simon
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: replied the priest, A God who chastises our lack of faith,
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: and the civic virtues we tolerate. Vice. We make ourselves
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: its accomplices. At times we applaud it and it is just,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: very just that we suffer the consequences that our children
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: suffer them. It is the God of liberty, senor Symon,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: who obliges us to love it by making the yoke
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: heavy for us, a god of mercy, of equity, who,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: while he chastises us, betters us, and only grants prosperity
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: to him who has merited it through his efforts. The
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: school of suffering tempers the arena of combat strengthens the soul.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: I do not mean to say that our liberty will
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: be secured at the sword's point, for the sword plays
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: but little part in modern affairs, but that we must
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: secure it by making ourselves worthy of it, by exalting
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: the intelligence and the dignity of the individual, by loving justice, right,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: and greatness, even to the extent of dying for them.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: And when a people reaches that height, God will provide
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: a weapon. The idols will be shattered, the tyranny will
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: out like the first dawn. Our ills we owe to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: ourselves alone. So let us blame no one. If Spain
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: should see that we were less complaisant with tyranny and
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: more disposed to struggle and suffer for our rights. Spain
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: would be the first to grant us liberty, because when
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: the fruit of the womb reaches maturity, woe unto the
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: mother who would stifle it. So while the Filipino people
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: has not sufficient energy to proclaim with head erect and
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: Bosom beared its rights to social life and to guarantee
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: it with its sacrifices, with its own blood. While we
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: see our countrymen in private life ashamed within themselves, hear
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: the voice of conscience roar in rebellion and protest, yet
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: in public life keeps silence or even echo the words
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: of him who abuses them, in order to mock the abused.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: While we see them wrap themselves up in their egotism
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: and with a three hundred sixty one forced smile, praise
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: the most iniquitous actions, begging with their eyes a portion
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: of the booty. Why grant them liberty? With Spain or
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: without Spain, they would always be the same, and perhaps worse.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: Why independence? If the slaves of to day will be
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: the tyrants of tomorrow, And that they will be such
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: is not to be doubted. For he who submits to
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: tyranny loves it senyor Simon. When our people is unprepared,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: when it enters the fight through fraud and force without
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: a clear understanding of what it is doing, the wisest
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: attempts will fail, and better that they do fail, Since
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: why commit the wife to the husband if he does
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: not sufficiently love her, if he is not ready to
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: die for her. Padre Florentino felt the sick man catch
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: and press his hand, so he became silent, hoping that
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: the other might speak, But he merely felt a stronger
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: pressure of the hand, heard a sigh, and then profound
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: silence reigned in the room. Only the sea, whose waves
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: were rippled by the night breeze, as though awaking from
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: the heat of the day, sent its horse roar its
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: eternal chant as it rolled against the jagged rocks. The moon,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: now free from the sun's rivalry, peacefully commanded the sky,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: and the trees of the forest bent down toward one another,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: telling their ancient legends and mysterious murmurs borne on the
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: wings of the wind. The sick man said nothing, so
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: Padre Florentino, deeply thoughtful, murmured, where are the youth who
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: will consecrate their golden hours, their illusions, and their enthusiasm
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: to the welfare of their native land. Where are the
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: youth who will generously pour out their blood to wash
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: away so much shame, so much crime, so much abomination,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: fure and spotless. Must the victim be that the sacrifice
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: may be acceptable? Where are you, youth, who will embody
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: in yourselves the vigor of life that has left our veins,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: the purity of ideas that has been contaminated in our brains,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: the fire of enthusiasm that has been quenched in our hearts.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: We await you, o youth, Come for we await you.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: Feeling his eyes moistened, he withdrew his hand from that.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: Three hundred sixty two of the sick man arose and
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: went to the window to gaze out upon the wide
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: surface of the sea. He was drawn from his meditation
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: by gentle raps at the door. It was the servant,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: asking if he should bring a light. When the priest
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: returned to the sick man and looked at him in
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: the light of the lamp, motionless, his eyes closed. The
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: hand that had pressed his lying open and extended along
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: the edge of the bed. He thought for a moment
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: that he was sleeping, but noticing that he was not breathing,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: touched him gently, and then realized that he was dead.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: His body had already commenced to turn and cold. The
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: priest fell upon his knees and prayed. When he arose
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: and contemplated the corpse, in whose features were depicted the
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: deepest grief, the tragedy of a whole wasted life, which
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: he was carrying over there beyond death. The old man
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: shuddered and murmured, God, have mercy on those who turned
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: him from the straight path, while the servants summoned by
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: him fell upon their knees and prayed for the dead man,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: Curious and bewildered as they gazed toward the bed, reciting
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: requiem after requiem, Padre Florentino took from a cabinet the
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: celebrated steel chest that contained simmons fabulous wealth. He hesitated
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: for a moment, then resolutely descended the stairs and made
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: his way to the cliff, where Isigoni was accustomed to
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: sit and gaze into the depths of the sea. Padre
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: Florentino looked down at his feet. There below he saw
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: the dark billows of the Pacific beating into the hollows
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: of the cliff, producing Sonora's thunder at the same time that,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: smitten by the moonbeams, the waves and foam glittered like
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: sparks of fire, like handfuls of diamonds hurled into the
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: air by some genee of the abyss. He gazed about him.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: He was alone. The solitary coast was lost in the
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: distance amid the dim cloud that the moonbeams played through
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: until it mingled with the horizon. The forest murmured unintelligible sounds.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: Then the old man, with an effort of his herculean arms,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: hurled the chest into space, throwing it toward the sea.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: It three hundred and sixty three whirled over and over
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: several times, and descended rapidly in a slight curve, reflecting
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: the moonlight on its polished surface. The old man saw
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: the drops of water fly and heard a loud splash
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: as the abyss closed over and swallowed up the treasure.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: He waited for a few moments to see if the
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: depths would restore anything, but the wave rolled on as
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: mysteriously as before, without adding a fold to its rippling surface,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: as though into the immensity of the sea. A pebble
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  Speaker 1: only had been dropped. May Nature guard you in her
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  Speaker 1: deep abysses, among the pearl and quarrels of her eternal sees,
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  Speaker 1: then said the priest, solemnly extending his hands. When for
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  Speaker 1: some holy and sublime purposed man may need you, God will,
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  Speaker 1: in his wisdom draw you from the bosom of the waves. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: there you will not work woe, You will not distort justice,
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  Speaker 1: You will not foment avarice. The end. Thanks for listening.