He's on his way now to confer with the General." "That doesn't matter.

Padre Sibyla is opposed to it." "Let him oppose it! That's why he's here on the steamer, in order to--at Los Banos before the General." And the student Basilio filled out his meaning by going through the pantomime of striking his fists together.
"That's understood," observed Capitan Basilio, smiling.

"But even though you get the permit, where'll you get the funds ?" "We have them, sir.

Each student has contributed a real." "But what about the professors ?" "We have them: half Filipinos and half Peninsulars." [7] "And the house ?" "Makaraig, the wealthy Makaraig, has offered one of his." Capitan Basilio had to give in; these young men had everything arranged.
"For the rest," he said with a shrug of his shoulders, "it's not altogether bad, it's not a bad idea, and now that you can't know Latin at least you may know Castilian.

Here you have another instance, namesake, of how we are going backwards.