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You have said that you are a stranger in your own country,
and I believe it. The very first day you arrived you began by wounding
the vanity of a priest who is regarded by the people as a saint,
and as a sage among his fellows. God grant that such a misstep may
not have already determined your future! Because the Dominicans and
Augustinians look with disdain on the guingon habit, the rope girdle,
and the immodest foot-wear, because a learned doctor in Santo Tomas[75]
may have once recalled that Pope Innocent III described the statutes
of that order as more fit for hogs than men, don't believe but that
all of them work hand in hand to affirm what a preacher once said,
'The most insignificant lay brother can do more than the government
with all its soldiers!' Cave ne cadas![76] Gold is powerful--the
golden calf has thrown God down from His altars many times, and that
too since the days of Moses!"
"I'm not so pessimistic nor does life appear to me so perilous in
my country," said Ibarra with a smile.


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