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Gould. She had brought her uncle over to see dear Emilia,without ceremony, just for a moment before the siesta.When all were seated again, Dr. Monygham, who hadcome to dislike heartily everybody who approached Mrs.Gould with any intimacy, kept aside, pretending to be lostin profound meditation. A louder phrase of Antonia madehim lift his head.‘How can we abandon, groaning under oppression, thosewho have been our countrymen only a few years ago, whoare our countrymen now?’ Miss Avellanos was saying.‘How can we remain blind, and deaf without pity to the cruelwrongs suffered by our brothers? There is a remedy.’‘Annex the rest of Costaguana to the order and prosperityof Sulaco,’ snapped the doctor. ‘There is no other remedy.’‘I am convinced, senor doctor,’ Antonia said, with theearnest calm of invincible resolution, ‘that this was fromthe first poor Martin’s intention.’‘Yes, but the material interests will not let you jeopardizetheir development for a mere idea of pity and justice,’ thedoctor muttered grumpily. ‘And it is just as well perhaps.’The Cardinal-Archbishop straightened up his gaunt,bony frame.‘We have worked for them; we have made them, thesematerial interests of the foreigners,’ the last of the Corbelansuttered in a deep, denunciatory tone.‘And without them you are nothing,’ cried the doctorfrom the distance. ‘They will not let you.’‘Let them beware, then, lest the people, prevented fromtheir aspirations, should rise and claim their share of the