291
Todo verdor perecerá, p. 50.
292
Ibid., pp. 52-53.
293
Ibid., p. 51.
294
Ibid., p. 78.
295
La torre, p. 24. Cf. p. 95, where Mota speaks of Morera: «-Eso, doctor, va en gustos. Algunos dicen así. Yo, el señor excuse, creo que es charlatán. No me gusta. Hombre que anda con mucha teoría no me parece de fiar».
296
A similar figure is a nameless man who, in one of the episodes of Tregua's «Las cuarenta noches de Juan Argentino», conquers his exhaustion and despair. La bahía de silencio, pp. 501-513.
297
Titles of nobility were abolished in Czechoslovakia in 1918; their use was made a punishable offense in 1920. I am indebted to my father, Dr. Frederick H. Polt, for calling my attention to this error. See Ludwig Adamovich, Grundriss des tschechoslowakischen Staatsrechtes (Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrechtes) (Vienna: Oesterreichische Staatsdruckerei, 1919), p. 61. Slovenia forms part of Yugoslavia; Mallea is thinking of the Slovaks.
298
Todo verdor perecerá, p. 12. Fourth page of the narration.
299
La torre, p. 15. First page of the narration.
300
Las Águilas, p. 7. First page of the narration.