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"A lie! It's not so!" cried Sinang, half in tears.
"What's the matter?" asked Maria Clara.
"Just imagine, I asked, 'When shall I have some sense?' I threw the
dice and that worn-out priest read from the book, 'When the frogs
raise hair.' What do you think of that? "As she said this, Sinang
made a grimace at the laughing ex-theological student.
"Who told you to ask that question?" her cousin Victoria asked her. "To
ask it is enough to deserve such an answer."
"You ask a question," they said to Ibarra, offering him the
wheel. "We're decided that whoever gets the best answer shall receive
a present from the rest. Each of us has already had a question."
"Who got the best answer?"
"Maria Clara, Maria Clara!" replied Sinang. "We made her ask,
willy-nilly, 'Is your sweetheart faithful and constant?' And the book
answered--"
But here the blushing Maria Clara put her hands over Sinang's mouth
so that she could not finish.
"Well, give me the wheel," said Crisostomo, smiling. "My question is,
'Shall I succeed in my present enterprise?'"
"What an ugly question!" exclaimed Sinang.


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