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THE "__________" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --________________________. There were _________, and __________, and then _________________, with__________. The__________________and especially upon the ______________, were the ______ which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole ______, _______ and _________ of the _______, were the ____________.
But the ________ was happy and ___________. When his _____ were _________, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his ___________. This was an __________ and _______________, the creation of the _________ ________ own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and ______________________ it in. This ______ had ______of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and __________ and _____ the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The ________ had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "_______."
It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the _________ entertained his thousand friends at a__________of the most unusual magnificence.

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It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the _______, a _________of _______. Its _________ _________ with a dull, ______, _________; and when the ________made the ______of the ______, and the______ to be _______, there came from the ________of the______a sound which was_____and ______and ______ and ________, but of so peculiar a _____and _____that, at each lapse of ______, the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their performance, to ______________; and thus the _________ceased their evolutions; and there was a brief ______ of the whole gay company; and, while the ______ of the _________, it was observed that the _________pale, and the more ____ and ____passed their hands over their brows as if in __________or ______. But when the echoes had_______, a light_____at once__________; the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own _______ and_______, and made _____________, each to the other, that the _________________produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another__________, and then were the same ________and ___________ and __________ as before.
But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel. The tastes of the duke were peculiar. He had a fine eye for colors and effects. He disregarded the decora of mere fashion. His __________, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre. There are some who would have thought him mad. His followers felt that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and touch him to be sure that he was not.
He had directed, in great part, the_____________of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great fete; and it was his own guiding taste which had given character to the_________. Be sure they were_________. There were much _______and ______ and ________ and ________ --much of what has been since seen in "______." There were______figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. There were _________such as the madman _______. There was much of the beautiful, much of the _______, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have __________. To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude of dreams. And these --the dreams --writhed in and about, taking hue from the rooms, and causing the wild music of the orchestra to seem as the echo of their steps. And, anon, there ________which stands in the hall of the velvet. And then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the ____________. The dreams are stiff-frozen as they stand. But the echoes of the chime die away --they have endured but an instant --and a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart. And now again the music swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to and fro more merrily than ever, taking hue from the many-tinted windows through which stream the rays from the tripods. But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the ________who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near _____________ a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulge in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.

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In an assembly of _________such as I have painted, it may well be supposed that no ordinary appearance could have excited such sensation. In truth the masquerade license of the night was nearly unlimited; but the figure in question had out-Heroded Herod, and gone beyond the bounds of even the ____________. There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed. The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. The_____which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat. And yet all this might have been endured, if not approved, by the mad revellers around. But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the ________. His vesture was dabbled in blood --and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.
When the eyes of _____________fell upon this spectral image (which with a slow and solemn movement, as if more fully to sustain its role, stalked to and fro among the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened with rage. "Who dares?" he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him --"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and _______ him --that we may know whom we have to hang at sunrise, from the battlements!"
It was in the eastern or blue chamber in which stood the______________as he uttered these words. They rang throughout the seven rooms loudly and clearly --for the_________ was a bold and robust man, and the music had become hushed at the waving of his hand.
It was in the blue room where stood the _________, with a group of pale courtiers by his side. At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment was also near at hand, and now, with deliberate and stately step, made closer approach to the speaker. But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad assumptions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were found none who put forth hand to seize him; so that, _________, he passed within a yard of the ________; and, while the vast assembly, as if with one impulse, shrank from the centres of the rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the same solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple --through the purple to the green --through the green to the orange --through this again to the white --and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him. It was then, however, that the________, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers, while none followed him on account of a __________ that had seized upon all. He bore aloft a ________, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreating figure, when the latter, having attained the extremity of the velvet apartment, turned suddenly and confronted his ______. There was a sharp cry --and the ________ gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the _________. Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.

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