. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . .. by a chain of diamonds, at the end of the superbhall, hung the hazel-wand sceptre ; but ranged be-fore it, and as it were, intercepting his approach,stood an hundred maidens, of the most dazzlinsr O beauty, clad in vestments of silken gauze, crownedwith gold and pearls, and bearing in one hand acup of wine, while the other held a wreath of oak-leaves. Perek had resisted the silver and the gold,the pearls and the diamonds; but the bright eyes ofthese lovely maidens were not thus to be passed stood still, gazing upon their beauty. The t
. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . .. by a chain of diamonds, at the end of the superbhall, hung the hazel-wand sceptre ; but ranged be-fore it, and as it were, intercepting his approach,stood an hundred maidens, of the most dazzlinsr O beauty, clad in vestments of silken gauze, crownedwith gold and pearls, and bearing in one hand acup of wine, while the other held a wreath of oak-leaves. Perek had resisted the silver and the gold,the pearls and the diamonds; but the bright eyes ofthese lovely maidens were not thus to be passed stood still, gazing upon their beauty. The tenthstroke sounded, but it fell on an unconscious eleventh rang out, but he heard it not. Thenclanged the twelfth, sounding like the minute-gunwhich announces that a noble ship is among thebreakers. Perek, startled from his dream, tried toturn back ; but it was too late. The passage wasclosed against him ; the beautiful maidens relapsedinto an hundred stone pillars, supporting the heavydrifts of sand; and Perek was shut up forever, in the mi
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