I don't know why, but that man fills me with horror, fear almost." "I was nudging you with my elbow.

Don't you know that he's called the Brown Cardinal ?" "The Brown Cardinal ?" "Or Black Eminence, as you wish." "I don't understand." "Richelieu had a Capuchin adviser who was called the Gray Eminence; well, that's what this man is to the General." "Really ?" "That's what I've heard from _a certain person,_--who always speaks ill of him behind his back and flatters him to his face." "Does he also visit Capitan Tiago ?" "From the first day after his arrival, and I'm sure that _a certain person_ looks upon him as a rival--in the inheritance.

I believe that he's going to see the General about the question of instruction in Castilian." At that moment Isagani was called away by a servant to his uncle.
On one of the benches at the stern, huddled in among the other passengers, sat a native priest gazing at the landscapes that were successively unfolded to his view.

His neighbors made room for him, the men on passing taking off their hats, and the gamblers not daring to set their table near where he was.

He said little, but neither smoked nor assumed arrogant airs, nor did he disdain to mingle with the other men, returning the salutes with courtesy and affability as if he felt much honored and very grateful.