There's enough to pension many widows and orphans in order to maintain our prestige.

Don't smile, for I'm not talking about myself, and I have my pension, even though a very small one, insignificant considering the services my husband rendered, but I'm talking of others who are dragging out miserable lives! It's not right that after so much persuasion to come and so many hardships in crossing the sea they should end here by dying of hunger.

What you say about the soldiers may be true, but the fact is that I've been in the country more than three years, and I haven't seen any soldier limping." "In that I agree with the lady," said her neighbor.

"Why issue them shoes when they were born without them ?" "And why shirts ?" "And why trousers ?" "Just calculate what we should economize on soldiers clothed only in their skins!" concluded he who was defending the army.
In another group the conversation was more heated.

Ben-Zayb was talking and declaiming, while Padre Camorra, as usual, was constantly interrupting him.