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THE DRAGON VOLANT.
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emergency, a bow, "it is time you should retire."
The lady passed into the room, in which I had taken my cup of treacherous coffee, and I saw her no more.
The Count took a candle, and passed through the door at the further end of the room, returning with a roll of linen in his hand. He bolted first one door, then the other.
They now, in silence, proceeded to undress me rapidly. They were not many minutes in accomplishing this. What the doctor had termed my nightshirt, a long garment which reached below my feet, was now on, and a cap, that resembled a female nightcap more than anything I had ever seen upon a male head, was fitted upon mine, and tied under my chin.
And now, I thought, I shall be laid in a
