![]() ![]() In many palaces, such suites formed a long and flat scenery, while folding doors slid back almost to the walls on either side so that the view of the whole space was barely blocked. ![]() It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade ball. It was by the end of the fifth or sixth month of his isolation, and even though the plague raged most violently, Prince Prospero decided to entertain a thousand of his friends by organizing a masquerade ball. All the fun was inside the high wall leaving the "Red Death" outside of it. There were dancers, comics, musicians, beauties, and wine. In order not to worry or think, the prince provided all the instruments for their pleasure. With such precautions, the courtiers could defy the plague. They were determined to neither go in nor go out if the impulses of despair or rage come within. The courtiers, entering, brought stoves and huge hammers and welded the bolts. It was surrounded by a strong and high wall with an iron gate. This was an extensive and majestic building, the product of the prince's own eccentric yet superb taste. When his kingdom was already half empty, he called a thousand good friends among the knights and ladies of his court and exited with them into the deep isolation of one of his castellated abbeys. But Prince Prospero was happy, fearless, and wise. ![]()
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