The Social Cancer

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By José Rizal, Charles
Derbyshire

Translated by Charles
Derbyshire

Published 1912
World Book Company

Spanish-Philippine
fiction

502 pages

Original from the New York Public Library

Digitized Mar 5, 2007

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Key words and phrases

Padre Damaso, Tagalog, Tasio, Filipino, Manila, gobernadorcillo, alcalde, Maria Clara, Civil Guard, Capitan Tiago, Franciscan, Spain, curate, alferez, Linares, tinola, salakot, Spanish, friars, pesos

AUTHORS DEDICATION	lvii
cancer, thee, suffer
CHAPTER PAGE I A SOCIAL GATHERING	1
tinola, Padre Damaso, Franciscan
CRISOSTOMO IBARRA	15
Fray Damaso, Crisostomo Ibarra, replied Ibarra
THE DINNER	19
tinola, Franciscan, Lucullus
HERETIC AND FILIBUSTER	25
Padre Damaso, filibuster, alcalde
A STAR IN A DARK NIGHT	33
Ibarra, Fray Sibyla, waning moon

CAPITAN TIAGO	36
Capitan Tiago, Pampanga, novenas
AN IDYL ON AN AZOTEA	50
Malabon, Maria Clara, Aunt Isabel
RECOLLECTIONS	60
carabao, Escolta, bamboo
LOCAL AFFAIRS	66
friar, Captain-General, scapularies
THE TOWN	72
balete, Spaniard, Don Rafael
THE RULERS	76
sacristan, gobernadorcillo, cabezas de barangay
ALL SAINTS	82
grave-digger, skull, ll give
SIGNS OF STORM	87
grave-digger, Chinamen, Fray Salvi
LUNATIC OR SAGE	91
Tasio, purgatory, gobernadorcillo
THE SACRISTANS	101
Crispin, peso, senior sacristan
SISA	106
novena, peso, Sisa
BASILIO	112
Tasio, rattan, Filipinas
SOULS IN TORMENT	118
Sipa, plenary indulgences, Gloria Patris
A SCHOOLMASTERS DIFFICULTIES	125
Tagalog, Ciruela, Spanish
THE MEETING IN THE TOWN HALL	136
talibons, Don Filipo, Capitan Basilio
THE STORY OF A MOTHER	149
bamboo, tempest, panuelo
CHAPTER PAOK XXII LIGHTS AND SHADOWS	157
Maria Clara, Padre Salvi, answered Ibarra
FISHING	161
sinigang, Albino, Tagalog
IN THE WOOD	175
alferez, Wheel of Fortune, Padre Salvi
IN THE HOUSE OF THE SAGE	188
Latin alphabet, hieroglyphics, Spain
THE EVE OF THE FIESTA	201
Tondo, Passion Song, buyo
IN THE TWILIGHT	210
salakot, leper, locket
CORRESPONDENCE	218
Morpheus, Reverend Fray, acolytes
THE MORNING	225
alcalde, Rosary, San Diego
IN THE CHURCH	231
comedian, deacon, Sister Pute
THE SERMON	236
salakot, Latin, Ave Maria
THE DERRICK	247
trowel, windlass, yellowish individual
FREE THOUGHT	258
judge his fellows, answered the youth, miracle
THE DINNER	262
Voltaire
COMMENTS	273
excommunication, Sister Rufa, Capitana Tinay
THE FIRST CLOUD	280
excommunication, Captain-General, fifty thousand pesos
His EXCELLENCY	284
Augustinian
THE PROCESSION	294
alguazil, Aristotle, John the Baptist
DONA CONSOLACION	300
Filipinas, kundiman, Dona Consolacion
RIGHT AND MIGHT	312
Ratia, teniente-mayor
Two VISITS	321
asked Ibarra, brothers whose father, whose father died
THE ESPADANAS	324
Dona Victorina, Espadana, mestiza
PLANS	337
Linares, sick girl, five hundred pesos
AN EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE	341
EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE, sick girl, viaticum
THE HUNTED	348
avenge, old man shook, tortures
THE COCKPIT	355
Tarsilo, ldsak, gaff
THE Two SENORAS	366
Senora, Don Tiburcio
THE ENIGMA	372
Nor Juan, Archbishop, pay any attention
THE VOICE OF THE HUNTED	375
grati, true faith, tulisanes
CHAITEB PAGE L EUASS STOEY	386
prostitute, Balat, San Agustin
EXCHANGES	395
coconuts, Santiago, challenje
LJI THE CARDS OF THE DEAD AND THE SHADOWS	399
Visayan, civil-guards, dealt an ace
BiroN oi si CONOSCE DA MATTINA	405
scholasticism, Jesuits, asked Don Filipo
REVELATIONS	412
Basque, Don Pedro Eibarramendia, ll be acknowledged
THE CATASTROPHE	419
Kyrie, bayonets, eleyson
RUMORS AND BELIEF	426
Sister Pute, sacristy, cuadrilleros
VAE Vicns	434
Andong, Tarsilo, rattan
THE ACCURSED	443
Andong, Capitana Maria, Capitana Tinay
PATRIOTISM AND PRIVATE INTERESTS	447
tivo, filibusters, garrote
MARIA CLARA WEDS	459
Sibyla, balustrade
THE CHASE ON THE LAKE	472
Pasig, police boat, rowers
PADRE DAMASO EXPLAINS	480
nunnery, godfather, kiss
CHRISTMAS EVE	484
balete, CHRISTMAS EVE, madwoman
EPILOGUE	493
nunnery, abbess, soughing
GLOSSARY	499
Malay, abaka, papaya

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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. - Page 99

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Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains ; But long-contracted filth e'en in the soul remains. The relics of inveterate vice they wear ; And spots of sin obscene in every face appear. For this are various penances enjoined ; And some are hung to bleach upon the wind ; Some plunged in waters, others purged in fires, Till all the dregs are drained, and all the rust expires. - Page 97

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Andong - Page 444
To arrest my Andong, to shoot at him, to put him in the stocks, to take him to the capital, and only because — because he had a new pair of pantaloons ...
more pages: 441 442 445

Malabon - Page 493
Aunt Isabel, to collect whatever had belonged to his daughter and his dead wife and to go to make her home in Malabon or San Diego, since he wished to ...
more pages: 46 51 141

Binan - Page 224
that he won from us at the fiesta of Binan and at that of the Virgin of the Pillar in Santa Cruz. " We expected Capitan Tiago to bring us his future ...
more pages: 92 93

Batangas - Page 46
sanctuary in the island of Luzon, province of Batangas, jurisdiction of Taal, so called because there is venerated in it a Virgin who bears that name. ...
more pages: xxiv 205 218 266 321 331

Cavite - Page xv
Again the native clergy were the losers in that they had to give up their best parishes in Luzon, especially around Manila and Cavite, so the breach ...
more pages: xi xvi l 115 218

Dapitan - Page xlv
organizer of armed rebellion he had been a close prisoner in Dapitan under strict surveillance by both the military and ecclesiastical authorities. ...
more pages: xliii xlvi

Sipa - Page 121
answered old Sipa. " I make them recite the prayers anyhow. Then I glue the pieces together again and so lose nothing. ...
more pages: 120 122 123

Manila - Page xxxiii
was presented to the Archbishop by quite a respectable part of the Filipinos in Manila, requesting that the friar orders be expelled from the country, ...
more pages: l 54 77 191 238 330 339 371 386 446

Pandakan - Page 474
From Manila, to carry zacate to the judges and curates," he answered, imitating the accent of the people of Pandakan.
more pages: 209

San Diego - Page 493
Aunt Isabel, to collect whatever had belonged to his daughter and his dead wife and to go to make her home in Malabon or San Diego, since he wished to ...
more pages: 10 37 46 81 90 220 257 284 355 486

Madrid - Page 381
complaints are well founded I will write to my friends in Madrid, since we have no representatives. Meanwhile, believe me that the government needs a ...
more pages: xii xxx xxxi 39 62 196 289 335 336 376

Andres Bonifacio - Page l
on the very edge of the city, Andres Bonifacio and his literally sansculottic gangs of cutthroats were, almost with impunity, soiling the fair name of ...
more pages: xxxviii

Tayabas - Page 341
Where do you say they 're transferring him to ? " Linares asked the curate. " To the province of Tayabas," replied the curate negligently.
more pages: 389

Leon - Page 172
It was a large one, as Leon had said, speckled, and on its back grew the green moss which is to the caymans what gray hairs are to men. ...
more pages: 171 179 184 186

Paete - Page 40
Had not other images, even those more rudely carved ones that issue from the carpenter shops of Paete,2 many times come to life for the confusion and ...

Port Said - Page xliii
The order of arrest was cabled to Port Said and Rizal there placed in solitary confinement for the remainder of the voyage. ...
more pages: 332

Bulacan - Page 115
Fray Antonio Piernavieja, OSA, was a parish curate in the province of Bulacan when this work was written. Later, on account of alleged brutality ...
more pages: 209

Cebu - Page 175
He did not care to touch the second cup of chocolate nor to taste the sweet cakes of Cebu ; instead, he paced thoughtfully about the spacious sala, ...

Singapore - Page xliii
At Singapore he was advised to land and claim British protection, as did some of his fellow travelers, but he refused to do so, saying that his ...
more pages: xl xliv

Malaga - Page 242
at the same time he consumed a couple of cakes and a glass of Malaga, secure of encountering therein greater inspiration than in all the holy ghosts, ...

Granada - Page 144
What can we learn from the kings of Bohemia and Granada, who commanded that their daughters' heads be cut off, or that they should be blown from a ...

Rome - Page 97
While they yet preserve their beliefs and even their rites under Christian forms, they were unable to accompany the hordes in the spoliation of Rome ...
more pages: xi xxiv 77 143 266

Binangonan - Page 477
Gradually he changed the course of his banka, rowing toward Binangonan. To his great surprise he noticed that the boat also changed its course, ...

Assisi - Page 40
of Assisi in a coffee-colored robe and with seven wings, placed over a St. Vincent who had only two but in compensation carried a trumpet ; a St. ...

Paris - Page xxxi
But in a letter written to a friend in Paris at the time, the author himself says that it was taken from the Gospel scene where the risen Savior ...

St. Augustine - Page 98
The devil with St. Augustine! " ejaculated Don Filipo. " He was n't satisfied with what we suffer here but wished a continuance. ...

Amsterdam - Page x
through their country, principally to London and Amsterdam, there to form in more practical hands the basis of the British and Dutch colonial empires. ...

Barcelona - Page xxvii
He reached Spanish territory first in Barcelona, the hotbed of radicalism, where he heard a good deal of revolutionary talk, which, however, ...

London - Page xxxiv
he spent some time in London preparing an edition of Morga's Sucesos de las Filipinos, a work published in Mexico about 1G06 by the principal actor in ...
more pages: x xliv

Berlin - Page xxxi
But in 1887 Noli Me Tangere was printed in Berlin, in an establishment where the author is said to have worked part of his time as a compositor in ...

Santiago - Page 46
but so miserly that he would not spend a cent to educate his son, for which reason the little Santiago had been the servant of a good Dominican, ...
more pages: xi 7 280 395

Santos - Page 219
we joined them and proceeded to look for our companions, who were dining in the house owned here by the pious and wealthy Don Santiago de los Santos. ...
more pages: 1 221 292

Aguadas - Page 63
This place is now called Wallace Field, the name Bagumbayan being applied to the driveway which was known to the Spaniards as the Paseo de las Aguadas ...