The other is a rubicund youth, who seems to have arrived but recently in the country.

With him the Franciscan is carrying on a lively discussion.
"You'll see," the friar was saying, "when you've been here a few months you'll be convinced of what I say.

It's one thing to govern in Madrid and another to live in the Philippines." "But--" "I, for example," continued Fray Damaso, raising his voice still higher to prevent the other from speaking, "I, for example, who can look back over twenty-three years of bananas and _morisqueta_, know whereof I speak.

Don't come at me with theories and fine speeches, for I know the Indian.

[20] Mark well that the moment I arrived in the country I was assigned to a toxin, small it is true, but especially devoted to agriculture.