While they admired a spectacle so
different to anything they had recently beheld or experienced, the
Seneschal, followed by a number of slaves in splendid attire, advanced
and offered them rare and choice refreshments, coffee and
confectionery, sherbets and spiced wines. When they had partaken of
this elegant cheer, Nicaeus intimated to the Seneschal that the Lady
Iduna might probably wish to retire, and instantly a discreet matron,
followed by six most beautiful girls, each bearing a fragrant torch of
cinnamon mind roses, advanced and offered to conduct the Lady Iduna to
her apartments.
The matron and her company of maidens conducted the daughter of
Hunniades down a long gallery, which led to a suite of the prettiest
chambers in the world. The first was an antechamber, painted like a
bower, but filled with the music of living birds; the second, which was
much larger, was entirely covered with Venetian mirrors, and resting on
a bright Persian carpet were many couches of crimson velvet, covered
with a variety of sumptuous dresses; the third room was a bath, made in
the semblance of a gigantic shell.
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