The Reign of Greed

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José Rizal. The Reign of Greed

The Reign of Greed

Table of Contents

On the Upper Deck

On the Lower Deck

Legends

Cabesang Tales

A Cochero’s Christmas Eve

Basilio

Simoun

Merry Christmas!

Pilates

Wealth and Want

Los Baños

Placido Penitente

The Class in Physics

In the House of the Students

Señor Pasta

The Tribulations of a Chinese

The Quiapo Fair

Legerdemain

The Fuse

The Arbiter

Manila Types

The Performance

A Corpse

Dreams

Smiles and Tears

Pasquinades

The Friar and the Filipino

Tatakut

Exit Capitan Tiago

Juli

The High Official

Effect of the Pasquinades

La Ultima Razón1

The Wedding

The Fiesta

Ben-Zayb’s Afflictions

The Mystery

Fatality

Conclusion

GLOSSARY

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José Rizal

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“Here, enough of complaints, puñales, else I’ll fall to weeping!” cried Padre Camorra gleefully. “We’re not complaining, and we haven’t either estates or banking-houses. You know that my Indians are beginning to haggle over the fees and to flash schedules on me! Just look how they cite schedules to me now, and none other than those of the Archbishop Basilio Sancho,1 as if from his time up to now prices had not risen. Ha, ha, ha! Why should a baptism cost less than a chicken? But I play the deaf man, collect what I can, and never complain. We’re not avaricious, are we, Padre Salvi?”

At that moment Simoun’s head appeared above the hatchway.

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