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You’re invited to the masquerade. Do you dare attend? - Iseult Gillespie - Video học tiếng Anh
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You’re invited to the masquerade. Do you dare attend? - Iseult Gillespie
You’re invited to the masquerade. Do you dare attend? - Iseult Gillespie
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The Red Death had long devastated the country.
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Blood was its Avatar.
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There were sharp pains, sudden dizziness, then profuse bleeding at the pores.
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The scarlet stains upon the body were the pest ban,
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which shut out aid and sympathy.
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The whole progress and termination of the disease
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were the incidents of half an hour.
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But Prince Prospero was happy.
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When his dominions were half depopulated,
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he summoned a thousand hale and light-hearted friends
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from among the knights and dames of his court,
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and retired to one of his castellated abbeys.
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A strong and lofty wall girdled it in.
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The external world could take care of itself.
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In the meantime, it was folly to grieve— or to think.
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It was toward the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion
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that Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball.
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There were seven rooms.
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In each, a Gothic window of stained glass
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whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue.
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The seventh was closely shrouded in black velvet.
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The panes were scarlet and produced so wild a look upon those who entered
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that there were few bold enough to set foot within its precincts.
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It was in this apartment also that there stood
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a gigantic clock of ebony.
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When its minute hand made the circuit of the face,
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there came forth a sound so peculiar that there was a brief disconcert.
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But when the echo ceased, a light laughter pervaded the assembly.
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The musicians smiled at their own nervousness.
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And then, after the lapse of 60 minutes,
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the same tremulousness as before.
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But, in spite of these things, it was a magnificent revel.
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The tastes of the Duke were peculiar.
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There are some who would have thought him mad.
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There was much of the beautiful, wanton, bizarre, something of the terrible,
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and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
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To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked a multitude of dreams.
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And these, the dreams—
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writhed in and about, taking hue from the rooms.
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And, anon, there strikes the ebony clock,
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and momently, all is still.
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And now again the music swells, and the dreams live,
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and writhe to and fro more merrily than ever.
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But to the chamber which lies most westwardly,
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none of the maskers venture,
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for there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes.
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And to him whose foot falls upon the carpet,
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there comes from the clock a muffled peal
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more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears
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who indulge in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.
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The revel went whirlingly on— until the twelfth hour.
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There was an uneasy cessation of all things.
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More of thought crept.
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And many individuals in the crowd had become aware of a masked figure.
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There arose a murmur, at first of surprise—
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then, finally, terror and disgust.
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The figure was shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.
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The mask was made to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse.
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The mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death,
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dabbled in blood.
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When the eyes of the Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image,
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his brow reddened with rage.
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“Who dares thus to make mockery of our woes?
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Uncase the varlet that we may know whom we have to hang tomorrow!”
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None put forth hand to seize him.
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Unimpeded, he made his way through.
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Prince Prospero, maddening with the shame of his own cowardice,
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bore aloft a drawn dagger, and approached the retreating figure,
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when the latter, having attained the extremity of the velvet apartment,
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turned suddenly.
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There was a sharp cry—
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and the dagger dropped,
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upon which instantly fell Prince Prospero.
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The revellers gasped,
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finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask
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untenanted by any tangible form.
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And now was acknowledged
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the presence of the Red Death.
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One by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls.
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And the life of the ebony clock went out.
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And the flames expired.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death
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held illimitable dominion over all.
