El Filibusterismo Script Kabanata 17 May 2026

Fifty... no, forty. But Simoun, my conscience—my reputation! If the Guardia Civil find out that I am shipping rifles in my Banga ... they will hang me in the Luneta!

Simoun pressures Quiroga to allow him to smuggle a large number of firearms and ammunition into the province, disguised within ceramic jars and hollow furniture. Quiroga is terrified; he is a businessman playing a delicate political game with the Spanish friars (specifically Padre Sibyla and Padre Camorra). He needs their permission to get his consulship, but Simoun threatens to withdraw his financial support for that same consulship. El Filibusterismo Script Kabanata 17

You... you are a devil.