I remembered that he had brought my bag aboard, and, finding a peso in my pocketfive times what he had asked forI gave him the coin.

Look at this one, the smallest of all, weighing not more than two carats, which cost me twenty thousand pesos and which I won't sell for less than thirty.

Following along the western coast, the Spaniards visited the cacique Taracuru, from whom they obtained eight thousand pesos; a peso, as we have already said, corresponding to an unminted castellano.

" Then, seeing that Placido gave the two pesos

The total revenues of the island, including the old-established taxes and contributions, produced 70,000 pesos, and half of that sum was never recovered on account of the abuses and dishonesty that had been introduced in the system of collection.

"Artacho, who had received 5000 pesos as his share of the second payment, arrived in Hongkong and on April 5 demanded 200,000 pesos of the insurgent funds, probably under the agreement that he should establish a company in Hongkong for the benefit of the former leaders and not merely of those who had accompanied Aguinaldo.

That had been too much to askit were much easier to request the Virgin to send the two hundred and fifty pesos.

"If you can't do it, I'll have to apply to some one else, but then I'll need the nine thousand pesos to cross their palms and shut their eyes.

The curate, as was to be expected after what he had done, was not in his place, for that year he was greatly displeased at having to use all his diplomacy and shrewdness to convince the townspeople that they should pay thirty pesos for each Christmas mass instead of the usual twenty.

All duties on the introduction of negroes into Santo Domingo, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Margarita, and Trinidad were commuted in the same year for a moderate capitation tax, and the Spanish firm of Aguirre, Aristegui & Co. was authorized to provide the Antilles with negroes, on condition of reducing the price 10 pesos per head, besides the amount of abolished duty.

He took back the tapis and she hasn't returned the peso yet, but I don't pay her when she wins at panguingui, abá!

Capitan Basilio came with his wife, daughter, and son-in-law, prepared to spend at least three thousand pesos.

The robbers numbered three or four, armed only with bolos, the sum stolen fifty pesos!

Placido recalled the case of a student who had passed through the entire course by presenting canary-birds, so he subscribed three pesos.

"Forty or fifty outlaws traitorouslyrevolvers, bolos, shotguns, pistolslion at baychairsplinters flyingbarbarously woundedten thousand pesos!"

She inquired the price and Simoun asked three thousand pesos, which made the good woman cross herself'Susmariosep!

Hence all the gold of the island amounted to 460,000 pesos yearly, equal to L.150,000 Sterling; which yielded 4,600 pesos, or L.150 yearly to Alcaçar, which was then thought a very considerable revenue, insomuch that the grant was revoked by their Catholic majesties.

Upon Basilio's imprisonment, the simple and grateful relatives had planned to make all kinds of sacrifices to save the young man, but as they could collect among themselves no more than thirty pesos, Sister Bali, as usual, thought of a better plan.

The business men of Manila, and especially the Chinese, discounted the new Philippine peso, because it did not contain as much silver as did the Mexican dollar.

Sinang clucked several times and her mother did not pinch her, perhaps because she too was overcome, or perhaps because she reflected that a jeweler like Simoun was not going to try to gain five pesos more or less as a result of an exclamation more or less indiscreet.

"The robbers got over two thousand pesos, leaving badly wounded one friar and two servants.

la matiza; La llama en derredor del tronco ardiente Por besar á otra llama se desliza, Y hasta el sáuce, inclinándose á su peso, Al río, que le besa, vuelve un beso.

"What do you think about making the contribution two pesos?