![]() ![]() What such a gathering could be in the House Absolute, I have already described. ![]() Then, glimpsing people in costume between the pillars of a pavilion, I strolled inside to join them. They lit candelabra with crystal lenses and coronas lucis suspended from the upper limbs of the trees, carried out trays of food and drink, positioned them, shifted them, then carried them back to one of the domed buildings again - the three acts being performed by three servants, but occasionally (no doubt because the others were busy elsewhere) by one.įor a time I wandered about the grounds, admiring the flowers by the fast fading twilight. There were more bustling servants still than masquers, servants who seemed to have begun their work only a moment before, and to be determined to complete it at once. The pair to whom I showed my circle of painted paper no more than glanced at it before waving me inside. ![]() There were sentries at the filigree gates, dismounted troopers in steel corselets and helmets, with blazing lances and long-bladed cavalry spathae but they had the air of minor and amateur actors, good-natured, hard-bitten men enjoying a respite from running fights and wind-swept patrols. ![]()
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