![]() ![]() He plans to marry Juli.īasilio is about to leave his mother’s tomb when he hears someone arrive. In two months, Basilio is set to complete his medical studies and will cap his academic career as commencement speaker. ![]() With continued diligence and hard work however, he eventually distinguished himself in his studies and went on to study medicine. Poor and badly dressed, he was shunned by his classmates and ignored by his teachers, so he was unable to make a mark in his first three years. He had suffered hunger and poverty in his journey to Manila in search of employment, until he was taken in as an unpaid servant at Capitan Tiago’s house in exchange for permission to study. īasilio thinks back too on the events of his life since then. He visits his mother’s grave by the balete tree and recalls the night thirteen yeas ago when his mother died on the spot and a stranger came and helped him bury his mother and burn the body of another stranger. Basilio steals out of the house at midnight and heads to the old wood previously owned by the Ibarras, and now belonging to Capitan Tiago. ![]()
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