Fray Salvi moved from one group to the other, giving animation to the scene.

Would that our friend the correspondent had been present! "This very day we'll go to Manila and see the Captain-General!" declared the raging Dona Victorina to her husband.

"You're not a man! It's a waste of money to buy trousers for you!" "B-but, woman, the g-guards?
I'm l-lame!" "You must challenge him for pistol or sword, or--or--" Dona Victorina stared fixedly at his false teeth.
"My d-dear, I've never had hold of a--" But she did not let him finish.

With a majestic sweep of her hand she snatched out his false teeth and trampled them in the street.
Thus, he half-crying and she breathing fire, they reached the house.

Linares was talking with Maria Clara, Sinang, and Victoria, and as he had heard nothing of the quarrel, became rather uneasy at sight of his cousins.