Is theirs a just desire?
Then grant it! Let's give them all the schools they want, until they are tired of them.

Youth is lazy, and what urges them to activity is our opposition.

Our bond of prestige, Padre Sibyla, is about worn out, so let's prepare another, the bond of gratitude, for example.

Let's not be fools, let's do as the crafty Jesuits--" "Padre Fernandez!" Anything could be tolerated by Padre Sibyla except to propose the Jesuits to him as a model.

Pale and trembling, he broke out into bitter recrimination.