Remember that we have scarcely eleven days left." "And he has staved at the convento to hold a conference with the curate, who is sick," observed one of the youths.
"It doesn't matter," remarked another.

"We have everything prepared.

Just so the plan of the old men doesn't receive a majority--" "I don't believe it will," interrupted Don Filipo, "as I shall present the plan of the old men myself!" "What! What are you saying ?" asked his surprised hearers.
"I said that if I speak first I shall present the plan of our rivals." "But what about our plan ?" "I shall leave it to you to present ours," answered Don Filipo with a smile, turning toward a youthful cabeza de barangay.

[67] "You will propose it after I have been defeated." "We don't understand you, sir," said his hearers, staring at him with doubtful looks.
"Listen," continued the liberal leader in a low voice to several near him.

"This morning I met old Tasio and the old man said to me: 'Your rivals hate you more than they do your ideas.