(Screams quietly) Jesus! Hide that!
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(Releases him, laughs loudly) Excommunication? I have a different sacrament for you. (He pulls aside a tarp to reveal a hidden rifle). Look. El Filibusterismo Script Kabanata 17
You... you are a devil.
(Whispering) For the love of God, Simoun, lower your voice! The friars are out there. Padre Camorra is drunk on the Ferris wheel, but his ears are sharp as a knife! (Screams quietly) Jesus
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.
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(Trembling) The friars... Padre Sibyla threatened me. He said if I deal with you, he will excommunicate me.