It was the fatal nature of... «Orlando»
el_lagarto23 августа 2012It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute phantom for reality, so that Orlando, to whom fortune has given every gift - plate, linen, houses, men-servants, carpets, beds in profusion - had only to open a book for the whole vast accumulation to turn to mist. The nine acres of stone which were his house vanished; one hundred and fifty indoor servants disappeared; his eighty riding horses became invisible; it would take too long to count the carpets, sofas, trappings, china, plate, cruets, chafing dishes and other movables often of beaten gold, which evaporated like so much sea mist under the miasma. So it was, and Orlando would sit by himself, reading, a naked man.
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