Page 94 - Revelation

Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

romantic, you are not a child anymore!

The carriage was off. The young man called Axel continuously looked at the
road and sadly whispered:
– Oh my merry Daisy, what happened to you? Is this really all that is left of us
since we grew up?

The picture disappeared and then another one came... It was the same young
man called Axel, but a completely different and shockingly beautiful "reality",
looking more like an unreal dream, surrounded him...
Enormous mirrors reflected thousands of candles which dizzily sparkled in a
splendid fairy- tale hall. Probably it was somebody's very rich palace, maybe even a
royal one... An unbelievably great number of guests in their finest dresses stood, sat
and walked in this wonderful hall, radiantly smiling at each other and, almost as one,
from time to time looking toward the heavy gilt door, expecting something. Music
quietly played somewhere; charming ladies, each one more beautiful than the last,
flittered like multicoloured butterflies catching delighted glances from the likewise
stunningly dressed gentlemen. The multitude of different jewels sparkled, shone and
glittered all over the place; silks softly rustled and the enormous elaborate wigs
besprinkled with fairy flowers coquettishly rocked on lady’s elegant heads.
Axel stood, leaning against the marble column, and looked absently at the
lustrous crowd, being absolutely indifferent to its charm, and I felt that he too waited
for something, just as did the rest of the people.

At last everything around began to move and, as if with the wave of a magic
wand, the splendidly dressed crowd divided into two parts, forming a very wide, "ball"
aisle exactly in the middle of the hall. A dazzlingly beautiful woman walked regally
along this passage-way, or rather it was a couple, but the man next to her was so artless
and plain, that despite his sumptuous attire, he hopelessly faded into insignificance
next to his magnificent companion.
The beautiful lady looked very spring-like – varicoloured paradisiacal birds and
amazing silvery-pink flowers were embroidered all over her blue dress, and garlands
of fresh flowers reposed on her silk ash-grey hair, set in a highly elaborate coiffure,
like a fragile pink cloud. Numerous strings of tender pearls coiled around her long
neck and it seemed that the extraordinary whiteness of her amazing skin made them
shine. Enormous sparkling blue eyes amiably looked at the surrounding people. She
happily smiled and was exquisitely beautiful...

Axel, who had apathetically kept aloof from all that, transformed as if by magic!
The bored young man vanished somewhere in the wink of an eye and instead a living
embodiment of the loftiest feelings appeared, which "devoured" the beautiful woman
who slowly approached him with a blazing look…

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