“You have cursed me with life,” she said. “You have cursed me before this, so that I can not even love as others do. That is the end of your power.”
[1] Diablo—The devil. An exclamation or oath. [↑]
[2] Sin-verguenza—Sin without shame. [↑]
VI.
FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE.
“Foolish, foolish, foolish!” Mrs. Rizal was expressing her opinion of General Saguanaldo’s action to the insurgent general himself.
“Caspita! Why is it foolish?” asked the general.
“Because you may offend America, without the friendship of which you can not win. It will be natural for the United States, after having captured the Philippines in the prosecution of a foreign war, to want to hold on to them. And if America chooses to hold the islands and make them part of the United States in declaring the independence of the Philippines you will only turn America from your side to oppose you.”