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panem et circensis
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ware to offer her. Photographers took up their
abode in the city and commenced to work for her.
Coral-traders and tortoise mongers grew up from
the earth about her. The priests in Santa Agnese
dug up the old Dionysius theater, which lay hidden
behind their church, for her sake, and everyone
who owned a tumbling down villa, dug out, in the
darkness of the cellars, fragments of mosaic floors, and
by great placards invited her to come and see.
" There had, to be sure, been strangers ere now in
Diamante, but they had come and gone and no one
had possessed such power. Soon there was not a
man in the city who did not put all his trust in the
English signorina. She even succeeded in putting
a little life in Ugo Favara. You recollect Ugo
Favara, the advocate, who was to become a great
man, but who met with adversity and came home
quite broken down. She employed him to look
after her affairs. She needed him, and she took him.
"There had never been a woman in Diamante
who had done such business as she. She spread
like green-weed in spring. One day no one yet
knows that it is there, the next it is a large knoll.
Soon one could hardly go anywhere in Diamante
without lighting on her ground. She bought a
country-seat and city-residence, she bought almond
groves and lava streams. All the beautiful places
on Etna, from which one had a fine view were hers,
and likewise the soggy land on the plain. And in
the city she commenced to build two large palaces.
In them she would live and rule her kingdom.
" Never again shall one behold a woman like her.
It was not enough with all that. She also wished
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