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Chapter XXIII.
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‘Mid these wild scenes
Enchantment1 waves her hand,
To change the face of the mysterious land;
Till the bewildering scenes around us seem
The Vain productions of a feverish2 dream.
ASTOLPHO, A ROMANCE.
When the Knight3 of the Leopard4 awoke from his long and profound repose5, he found himself in circumstances so different from those in which he had lain down to sleep, that he doubted whether he was not still dreaming, or whether the scene had not been changed by magic. Instead of the damp grass, he lay on a couch of more than Oriental luxury; and some kind hands had, during his repose, stripped him of the cassock of chamois which he wore under his armour6, and substituted a night-dress of the finest linen7 and a loose gown of silk. He had been canopied8 only by the palm-trees of the desert, but now he lay beneath a silken pavilion, which blazed with the richest colours of the Chinese loom9, while a slight curtain of gauze, displayed around his couch, was calculated to protect his repose from the insects, to which he had, ever since his arrival in these climates, been a constant and passive prey10. He looked around, as if to convince himself that he was actually awake; and all that fell beneath his eye partook of the splendour of his dormitory. A portable bath of cedar11, lined with silver, was ready for use, and steamed with the odours which had been used in preparing it. On a small stand of ebony beside the couch stood a silver vase, containing sherbet of the most
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Moslem
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n.恶人( demon的名词复数 );恶魔;精力过人的人;邪念 | |
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axe
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generosity
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