Of me Voltaire would not say, 'We have lived among these people only to enrich ourselves and to calumniate them.'" The alcalde quoted this in French, so the employees, thinking that his Honor had cracked a joke, began to laugh in appreciation of it.

Some of the friars did likewise, since they did not know that the Voltaire mentioned was the same Voltaire whom they had so often cursed and consigned to hell.

But Padre Sibyla was aware of it and became serious from the belief that the alcalde had said something heretical or impious.
In the other kiosk the children were eating under the direction of their teacher.

For Filipino children they were rather noisy, since at the table and in the presence of other persons their sins are generally more of omission than of commission.

Perhaps one who was using the tableware improperly would be corrected by his neighbor and from this there would arise a noisy discussion in which each would have his partisans.