Come on now, loosen up with three or four pesos, so that they may see we are sports.

Don't let them say afterwards that in order to erect a statue they had to dig down into their own pockets.

Do, Placido, it's not money thrown away." He accompanied these words with a significant wink.

Placido recalled the case of a student who had passed through the entire course by presenting canary-birds, so he subscribed three pesos.
"Look now, I'll write your name plainly so that the professor will read it, you see--Placido Penitente, three pesos.

Ah, listen! In a couple of weeks comes the nameday of the professor of natural history.