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THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

Маска красной смертиby Edgar Aa! "#$

(1842)

THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country.

No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.Blood was its vatar and its seal !!the redness and thehorror of blood. There were sharp pains, and suddendiiness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, withdissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body andespecially upon the face of the victi#, were the pest

ban which shut hi# out fro# the aid and fro# thesy#pathy of his fellow!#en. nd the whole seiure, progress and ter#ination of the disease, were theincidents of half an hour.

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But the Irince Irospero was happy and dauntless andsagacious. Jhen his do#inions were half depopulated,he su##oned to his presence a thousand hale and

light!hearted friends fro# a#ong the Knights andda#es of his court, and with these retired to the deepseclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. This was aneLtensive and #agnificent structure, the creation of the princeMs own eccentric yet august taste. strong andlofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The

courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and #assyha##ers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave#eans neither of ingress or egress to the suddeni#pulses of despair or of freny fro# within. Theabbey was a#ply provisioned. Jith such precautionsthe courtiers #ight bid defiance to contagion. The

eLternal world could taKe care of itself. n the

#eanti#e it was folly to grieve, or to thinK. The princehad provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were i#provisatori, there were ballet!dancers, there were #usicians, there was Beauty, therewas wine. ll these and security were within. Jithout

was the "Red Death."

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t was toward the close of the fifth or siLth #onth ofhis seclusion, and while the pestilence raged #ostfuriously abroad, that the Irince Irospero entertained

his thousand friends at a #asKed ball of the #ost

unusual #agnificence.

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let #e tell of the roo#s in which it was held. Therewere seven !!an i#perial suite. n #any palaces,however, such suites for# a long and straight vista,while the folding doors slide bacK nearly to the wallson either hand, so that the view of the whole eLtent is

scarcely i#peded. Here the case was very differentW as#ight have been eLpected fro# the duKeMs love of the biarre. The apart#ents were so irregularly disposedthat the vision e#braced but little #ore than one at ati#e. There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirtyyards, and at each turn a novel effect. To the right and

left, in the #iddle of each wall, a tall and narrow

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othic window looKed out upon a closed corridorwhich pursued the windings of the suite. Thesewindows were of stained glass whose color varied inaccordance with the prevailing hue of the decorationsof the cha#ber into which it opened. That at the easterneLtre#ity was hung, for eLa#ple, in blue !!and vividly

blue were its windows. The second cha#ber was purple in its orna#ents and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green throughout, andso were the case#ents. The fourth was furnished andlighted with orange !!the fifth with white !!the siLthwith violet. The seventh apart#ent was closely

shrouded in blacK velvet tapestries that hung all overthe ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy foldsupon a carpet of the sa#e #aterial and hue. But in thischa#ber only, the color of the windows failed tocorrespond with the decorations. The panes here werescarlet !!a deep blood color. Now in no one of the

seven apart#ents was there any la#p or candelabru#,

a#id the profusion of golden orna#ents that layscattered to and fro or depended fro# the roof. Therewas no light of any Kind e#anating fro# la#p orcandle within the suite of cha#bers. But in thecorridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite

to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a braier offire that protected its rays through the tinted glass andso glaringly illu#ined the roo#. nd thus were produced a #ultitude of gaudy and fantasticappearances. But in the western or blacK cha#ber theeffect of the fire!light that strea#ed upon the darK

hangings through the blood!tinted panes, was ghastlyin the eLtre#e, and produced so wild a looK upon the

countenances of those who entered, that there were fewof the co#pany bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all.

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t was in this apart#ent, also, that there stood against

the western wall, a gigantic clocK of ebony. ts pendulu# swung to and fro with a dull, heavy,#onotonous clangW and when the #inute!hand #adethe circuit of the face, and the hour was to be stricKen,there ca#e fro# the braen lungs of the clocK a soundwhich was clear and loud and deep and eLceedingly

#usical, but of so peculiar a note and e#phasis that, ateach lapse of an hour, the #usicians of the orchestra

were constrained to pause, #o#entarily, in their perfor#ance, to hearKen to the soundW and thus thewalters perforce ceased their evolutionsW and therewas a brief disconcert of the whole gay co#panyW and,

while the chi#es of the clocK yet rang, it was observedthat the giddiest grew pale, and the #ore aged andsedate passed their hands over their brows as if inconfused reverie or #editation. But when the echoeshad fully ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded theasse#blyW the #usicians looKed at each other and

s#iled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and#ade whispering vows, each to the other, that the neLtchi#ing of the clocK should produce in the# no si#ilar

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\which e#brace three thousand and siL hundredseconds of the Ti#e that flies,] there ca#e yet anotherchi#ing of the clocK, and then were the sa#edisconcert and tre#ulousness and #editation as before.

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But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and#agnificent revel. The tastes of the duKe were peculiar.

He had a fine eye for colors and effects. He disregardedthe decora of #ere fashion. His plans were bold and

fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre.There are so#e who would have thought hi# #ad. Hisfollowers felt that he was not. t was necessary to hearand see and touch hi# to be sure that he was not.

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He had directed, in great part, the #oveablee#bellish#ents of the seven cha#bers, upon occasion

of this great feteW and it was his own guiding tastewhich had given character to the #asVueraders. Be surethey were grotesVue. There were #uch glare and glitter and piVuancy and phantas# !!#uch of what has been

since seen in "Hernani." There were arabesVue figureswith unsuited li#bs and appoint#ents. There were

delirious fancies such as the #ad#an fashions. Therewas #uch of the beautiful, #uch of the wanton, #uchof the biarre, so#ething of the terrible, and not a littleof that which #ight have eLcited disgust. To and fro inthe seven cha#bers there stalKed, in fact, a #ultitude of drea#s. nd these !!the drea#s !!writhed in and about,

taKing hue fro# the roo#s, and causing the wild #usicof the orchestra to see# as the echo of their steps. nd,anon, there striKes the ebony clocK which stands in thehall of the velvet. nd then, for a #o#ent, all is still,and all is silent save the voice of the clocK. The drea#s

are stiff!froen as they stand. But the echoes of thechi#e die away !!they have endured but an instant A and a light, half!subdued laughter floats after the# asthey depart. nd now again the #usic swells, and thedrea#s live, and writhe to and fro #ore #errily thanever, taKing hue fro# the #any!tinted windowsthrough which strea# the rays fro# the tripods. But to

the cha#ber which lies #ost westwardly of the seven,there are now none of the #asKers who ventureW for thenight is waning awayW and there flows a ruddier lightthrough the blood!colored panesW and the blacKness ofthe sable drapery appalsW and to hi# whose foot falls

upon the sable carpet, there co#es fro# the near clocK

of ebony a #uffled peal #ore sole#nly e#phatic thanany which reaches their ears who indulge in the #orere#ote gaieties of the other apart#ents.

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But these other apart#ents were densely crowded,and in the# beat feverishly the heart of life. nd therevel went whirlingly on, until at length thereco##enced the sounding of #idnight upon the clocK.nd then the #usic ceased, as have toldW and theevolutions of the walters were VuietedW and there was

an uneasy cessation of all things as before. But now

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there were twelve stroKes to be sounded by the bell ofthe clocKW and thus it happened, perhaps, that #ore ofthought crept, with #ore of ti#e, into the #editationsof the thoughtful a#ong those who revelled. nd thus,too, it happened, perhaps, that before the last echoes ofthe last chi#e had utterly sunK into silence, there were

#any individuals in the crowd who had found leisureto beco#e aware of the presence of a #asKed figurewhich had arrested the attention of no single individual before. nd the ru#or of this new presence havingspread itself whisperingly around, there arose at lengthfro# the whole co#pany a bu, or #ur#ur,

eLpressive of disapprobation and surprise !!then,finally, of terror, of horror, and of disgust.

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n an asse#bly of phantas#s such as have painted, it#ay well be supposed that no ordinary appearancecould have eLcited such sensation. n truth the#asVuerade license of the night was nearly unli#itedW but the figure in Vuestion had out!Heroded Herod, and

gone beyond the bounds of even the princeMs indefinitedecoru#. There are chords in the hearts of the #ostrecKless which cannot be touched without e#otion.Even with the utterly lost, to who# life and death areeVually ests, there are #atters of which no est can be#ade. The whole co#pany, indeed, see#ed now deeply

to feel that in the costu#e and bearing of the strangerneither wit nor propriety eListed. The figure was talland gaunt, and shrouded fro# head to foot in thehabili#ents of the grave. The #asK which concealedthe visage was #ade so nearly to rese#ble thecountenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest

scrutiny #ust have had difficulty in detecting the cheat.

nd yet all this #ight have been endured, if notapproved, by the #ad revellers around. But the#u##er had gone so far as to assu#e the type of theRed Death. His vesture was dabbled in blood !!and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was

besprinKled with the scarlet horror.

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Jhen the eyes of Irince Irospero fell upon this

spectral i#age \which with a slow and sole#n#ove#ent, as if #ore fully to sustain its role, stalKed toand fro a#ong the walters] he was seen to beconvulsed, in the first #o#ent with a strong shuddereither of terror or distasteW but, in the neLt, his brow

reddened with rage.

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"Jho dares" he de#anded hoarsely of the courtierswho stood near hi# !!"who dares insult us with this blasphe#ous #ocKery eie hi# and un#asK hi#!!that we #ay Know who# we have to hang at sunrise,fro# the battle#ents"

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t was in the eastern or blue cha#ber in which stoodthe Irince Irospero as he uttered these words. Theyrang throughout the seven roo#s loudly and clearly

!!for the prince was a bold and robust #an, and the#usic had beco#e hushed at the waving of his hand.

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t was in the blue roo# where stood the prince, with agroup of pale courtiers by his side. t first, as he spoKe,there was a slight rushing #ove#ent of this group inthe direction of the intruder, who at the #o#ent was

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also near at hand, and now, with deliberate and statelystep, #ade closer approach to the speaKer. But fro# acertain na#eless awe with which the #ad assu#ptionsof the #u##er had inspired the whole party, therewere found none who put forth hand to seie hi#W sothat, uni#peded, he passed within a yard of the princeMs

personW and, while the vast asse#bly, as if with onei#pulse, shranK fro# the centres of the roo#s to thewalls, he #ade his way uninterruptedly, but with thesa#e sole#n and #easured step which haddistinguished hi# fro# the first, through the bluecha#ber to the purple !!through the purple to the green

!!through the green to the orange !!through this againto the white !!and even thence to the violet, ere adecided #ove#ent had been #ade to arrest hi#. t wasthen, however, that the Irince Irospero, #addeningwith rage and the sha#e of his own #o#entarycowardice, rushed hurriedly through the siL cha#bers,

while none followed hi# on account of a deadly terror

that had seied upon all. He bore aloft a drawn dagger,and had approached, in rapid i#petuosity, to withinthree or four feet of the retreating figure, when thelatter, having attained the eLtre#ity of the velvetapart#ent, turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer.

There was a sharp cry !!and the dagger droppedglea#ing upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantlyafterwards, fell prostrate in death the Irince Irospero.Then, su##oning the wild courage of despair, a throngof the revellers at once threw the#selves into the blacKapart#ent, and, seiing the #u##er, whose tall figure

stood erect and #otionless within the shadow of theebony clocK, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the

grave!cere#ents and corpse!liKe #asK which theyhandled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by anytangible for#.

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nd now was acKnowledged the presence of the RedDeath. He had co#e liKe a thief in the night. nd one

by one dropped the revellers in the blood!bedewedhalls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. nd the life of the ebony clocK wentout with that of the last of the gay. nd the fla#es ofthe tripods eLpired. nd DarKness and Decay and theRed Death held illi#itable do#inion over all.

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