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I used to find myself in a spacious salon, its appointments and fashion those of Louis Treize, with ghostly moonlight pouring in at lofty church-like windows and painting distorted shadowgraphs of heraldic devices upon the floor. My costume was that of a Cavalier and I held a long sword in my hand. I was conscious of pain and great weakness.
"You must be careful!" she whispered in a tone that was less of a remonstrance than an invitation. "Remember, we're making shadowgraphs for our neighbors. That's the worst of a tent at night one silhouettes one's very thoughts." "Then put out the light," he muttered, thickly; but she slipped away, and her moist lips mocked him in silent laughter. "The idea! What in the world has come over you?
It remained outside of himself, a structure of air, a series of shadowgraphs, and the craving within him burned as passionately as ever. From now on he could grasp the points of the stories told by the boys at school, and he would know what Johan was hinting at in his boast about the secret doings of that attic. But of the reality of the thing he knew as little as before.
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