If there are tulisanes, the fault is not his, it is not his duty to run them down--that belongs to the Civil Guard.

If Cabesang Tales, instead of wandering about his fields, had stayed at home, he would not have been captured.

In short, that was a punishment from heaven upon those who resisted the demands of his corporation.
When Sister Penchang, the pious old woman in whose service Juli had entered, learned of it, she ejaculated several _'Susmarioseps_, crossed herself, and remarked, "Often God sends these trials because we are sinners or have sinning relatives, to whom we should have taught piety and we haven't done so." Those _sinning relatives_ referred to Juliana, for to this pious woman Juli was a great sinner.

"Think of a girl of marriageable age who doesn't yet know how to pray! _Jesus_, how scandalous! If the wretch doesn't say the _Dios te salve Maria_ without stopping at _es contigo_, and the _Santa Maria_ without a pause after _pecadores_, as every good Christian who fears God ought to do! She doesn't know the _oremus gratiam_, and says _mentibus_ for _mentibus_.

Anybody hearing her would think she was talking about something else.