Then, good-by to moral strength, good-by to everything! The first dike broken down, who will restrain this youth?
With our fall we do no more than signal your own.

After us, the government!" "_Punales_, that's not so!" exclaimed Padre Camorra.

"We'll see first who has the biggest fists!" At this point Padre Fernandez, who thus far in the discussion had merely contented himself with smiling, began to talk.

All gave him their attention, for they knew him to be a thoughtful man.
"Don't take it ill of me, Padre Sibyla, if I differ from your view of the affair, but it's my peculiar fate to be almost always in opposition to my brethren.

I say, then, that we ought not to be so pessimistic.