The Green God's Pavilion: A novel of the Philippines

Early the next morning, Julie received a note from Father Hull, in which he informed her that her appointment to the Manila Department had been arranged. Only one vacancy had ex...

Julie spent the morning after the carnival arranging the transfer of her effects to the Tondo. Isabel remained in bed, and did not emerge till Barry appeared at four o'clock.

A day came when Julie knew what it was to go without food. She reasoned, in the midst of a bad headache, that she was not the first person to whom this had happened, and that to...

Trembling in a fervor of joy the girl confronted it. Everybody in the excitement of arrival was trying to crowd her away from the packed railing of the vessel, but she managed t...

Julie walked back into her room, and stared heavily about this shell of her old existence where day by day the rope had been tightening inexorably around her throat. The room lo...

While Julie was dealing, in a splendid glow, with the affairs of the universe, her own mundane concerns, she was uneasily aware, were urgently in need of attention. She retired...

In her school in the Tondo, Julie was required to supervise as well as to teach. Her two native assistants, Mariana and Clarino, however, were the two most sacerdotally devout w...

His house was very old, and stood close to the ancient walls, overlooking the ocean. Its gardens lifted the graceful shadows of trees over the tops of the high lichened walls an...

Outside the priest's room, in the Military Hospital, they found a hushed motley assemblage--officials of high standing, prominent natives and poor ones, many of those Father Hul...

Supplies were becoming very hard to procure. Indeed, Julie had for some time felt urged to go and seek assistance from the outside world. Not the Plague alone, but starvation th...

But if there were nights in a moonlight garden, there were also broiling days in an equatorial city with streets hot under foot and an atmosphere like waves of fire. Julie was m...

Julie was entering again the Arabian Nights' city. It lay emblazoned in the light of a blood red torrid sun fast sinking behind a towering mountain that uprose out of wide stret...

A desperate situation now confronted Julie. For two weeks she had been exhausting her ingenuity trying to keep her household going. The wages of Gregorio, the cook, were unpaid,...

The next morning Mrs. Calixter offered to drive Julie down to the Ayuntamiento Building where she was to receive her instructions from the Head of the Department of Education. W...

On her way home Julie happened to pass her former school. The old crone to whom she still came for medicine was standing outside the stall. The girl stopped to speak to her.

Julie moved quickly, to hide any appearance of having heard what had so extraordinarily transpired. That flash of words and glances had disturbed every cell of her mind. She was...

Off in dark Eternity, a gleam of light--dividing all space--where minus changes to plus, is not to is. Towards it struggles, battling with all its little strength, a mortal cons...

In darkness, rain, and perturbation, Julie landed at her destination. A storm had blown up from the Sulu Sea, to which they were quite close. Before the light had faded, however...

Julie sat restively on the blistering deck of a small vessel in the harbor of Solano. The Black Pearl, which had brought her from Manila, had deposited her in this blazing city-...

"Who is your guest?" Julie demanded, as the carriage Barry had sent after her drew up at the door of the Archibispo Street house, where he stood waiting for her.

"The insurgents will surrender in Guindulman next Thursday," he told her. "They will deliver up their arms, to a man, and will take the oath of allegiance! This might be called...

She waved back the toiling future generations of light, and took the note to the window. What did it mean? The few lines managed to convey a message quite beyond their import. S...

A few days later, the Major, who had sat throughout his dinner in gloomy silence, said: "I've had a telegram from Templeton. He says Adams left Dao five days ago on a three-day...

Julie now entered into a phase of existence that she had never before experienced. She was important to quite an extensive number of people, not in the school alone--that was a...

Calmiden pressed closer. "We couldn't walk in the dusk, ever any more, Julie, among the mango trees, with the fire-flies all about us, or sit on the wharf and watch the little b...

"This is my private little hell. I've got to keep the old man from running amuck and the men from breaking out. But what I want to tell you right now--because we are going to be...