The Republic of the Southern Cross And Other Stories
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Maria alone was happy in the world of her fancies. She began to pay less and less attention to the hateful actuality of her surroundings. She went deeper and deeper into the kingdom of her visions. She already held conversations with the forms which her imagina- tion created as with living people. She used to return home with the conviction that to-day she had met the goddess Vesta or the dictator Sulla. She would re- member the things she had imagined as if they had actually taken place. When ...she talked with her father at nights she would tell him all her remembrances, and the old Rufus would not be amazed. Every story of hers gavehim a pretext for being ready with some lines of poetry — he would complete and develop the insane fancies of his daughter, and as she listened sleepily to no REPUBLIC OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS their strange conversations Florentia would sometimes spit and pronounce a curse, sometimes cross herself and whisper a prayer to the Holy Virgin. Ill In the spring following the triumphal procession of Narses Maria was one day wandering near the ruined walls of the baths of Trajan, when she noticed that in one place, where evidently the Esquilme Hill took its rise, there was a strange opening in the ground, like an entrance somewhere.
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