The Masque of the Red Death
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Death
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Combination of intelligence and good judgment.
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Strong and healthy.
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Respected, refined, impressive.
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Needed to
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Furnishing or decorating of a room.
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He had directed, in great part, the movable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great fête; and it was his own guiding taste which had given character to the masqueraders. Be sure they were grotesque. There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm—much of what has been since seen in "Hernani". There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. There were delirious fancies such