You know that my Indians are beginning to haggle over the fees and to flash schedules on me! Just look how they cite schedules to me now, and none other than those of the Archbishop Basilio Sancho, [10] as if from his time up to now prices had not risen.

Ha, ha, ha! Why should a baptism cost less than a chicken?
But I play the deaf man, collect what I can, and never complain.

We're not avaricious, are we, Padre Salvi ?" At that moment Simoun's head appeared above the hatchway.
"Well, where've you been keeping yourself ?" Don Custodio called to him, having forgotten all about their dispute.

"You're missing the prettiest part of the trip!" "Pshaw!" retorted Simoun, as he ascended, "I've seen so many rivers and landscapes that I'm only interested in those that call up legends." "As for legends, the Pasig has a few," observed the captain, who did not relish any depreciation of the river where he navigated and earned his livelihood.

"Here you have that of _Malapad-na-bato,_ a rock sacred before the coming of the Spaniards as the abode of spirits.