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Quote #10
The indignation ran high in the knot of deputies behind José Avellanos. Don José, lifting up his voice, cried out to them over the high back of his chair, "Sulaco has answered by sending to-day an army upon his flank. If all the other provinces show only half as much patriotism as we Occidentals—" (II.5.86)
Avellanos offers these thoughts as the Goulds, members of the Provincial Assembly, and other visitors (some of them European) talk about the war, just a little bit after Barrios's troops headed out. There seems to be some irony here in talking about the "patriotism" of "we Occidentals" in this particular group…