Ebook Zophiel

A traveller thus alludes to this fair retreat: I have often passed it in the still night, when the moon was shining brightly, and the leaves of the cocoa and palm threw fringe-like shadows on the walls and ?oor, and the elfin lamps of the cocullos swept through the windows and the door, casting their lurid and mysterious light on every, object, while the air was laden with the mingled perfumes of the coffee-wreaths and orange-?owers, the tuberose and night-blooming cereus and have thought no fitter birthplace could be found for the images she created.