Bolivar, Quiroga, and the other leaders, needed the support of all classes of the population in their struggle against Spain; they adopted the expedient of suppressing slavery.

"There were even high officials who were opposed to our project, the Head Secretary, the Civil Governor, Quiroga the Chinaman" "Quiroga the Chinaman!

" Makaraig paused, and an impatient listener asked, "How can we influence him?" "Padre Irene pointed out to me two ways" "Quiroga," some one suggested.

"Pshaw, great use Quiroga" "A fine present.

In the evening of that same Saturday, Quiroga, the Chinese, who aspired to the creation of a consulate for his nation, gave a dinner in the rooms over his bazaar, located in the Escolta.

Dressed as a Chinese mandarin in a blue-tasseled cap, Quiroga moved from room to room, stiff and straight, but casting watchful glances here and there as though to assure himself that nothing was being stolen.

And Quiroga was right!

Seeing Quiroga approach, he left the querulous merchants to greet the future consul, who on catching sight of him lost his satisfied expression and assigned a countenance like those of the merchants, while he bent almost double.

Quiroga respected the jeweler greatly, not only because he knew him to be very wealthy, but also on account of his rumored influence with the Captain-General.

It was reported that Simoun favored Quiroga's ambitions, that he was an advocate for the consulate, and a certain newspaper hostile to the Chinese had alluded to him in many paraphrases, veiled allusions, and suspension points, in the celebrated controversy with another sheet that was favorable to the queued folk.

Quiroga, with his smooth tongue and humble smile, was lavishly and flatteringly attentive to Simoun.

At this question all Quiroga's liveliness vanished like a dream.

"How, Quiroga, lost and ruined when you have so many bottles of champagne and so many guests?" Quiroga closed his eyes and made a grimace.

With affected simplicity and his most caressing smile, Quiroga had begged the lady to select the one she liked best, and the lady, more simple and caressing still, had declared that she liked all three, and had kept them.

" The grateful Quiroga thanked him, but soon fell to lamenting again about the bracelets.

" Quiroga began to show symptoms of fright.

Understand me?" Quiroga wavered, for he was afraid of firearms.

There'll be a search, eh?" When Quiroga and Simoun returned to the sala they found there, in animated conversation, those who had finished their dinner, for the champagne had loosened their tongues and stirred their brains.

He proceeded along the Escolta and was tempted to assault two Augustinians who were seated in the doorway of Quiroga's bazaar, laughing and joking with other friars who must have been inside in joyous conversation, for their merry voices and sonorous laughter could be heard.

Quicumque non crederit anathema sit!" Martin Aristorenas shrank away pale and trembling, while Quiroga, who had listened with great attention to the argument, with marked deference offered the philosopher a magnificent cigar, at the same time asking in his caressing voice: "Surely, one can make a contract for a cockpit with Kilisto, ha?

Meanwhile, the cowed populace, thinking that the hour of massacre has come, will rush out prepared to kill or be killed, and as they have neither arms nor organization, you with some others will put yourself at their head and direct them to the warehouses of Quiroga, where I keep my rifles.

"The friars?" "Quiroga the Chinaman?" "Some student?" "Makaraig?" Capitan Toringoy coughed and glanced at Isagani, while Chichoy shook his head and smiled.

It is regrettable that Quiroga's picturesque butchery of Spanish and Tagalogthe dialect of the Manila Chinesecannot be reproduced here.

This is Quiroga's pronunciation of Christo.Tr.

Those who were miserly, like Quiroga, reduced the expenses of the pompous church, to turn themselves into money-lenders to the kings, giving millions of ducats to those Austrian monarchs on whose dominions the sun never set, but who, nevertheless, found themselves obliged to beg almost as soon as their galleons returned from their voyages to America.