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Having reached the nuptial apartment, he found the lamp extinguished, and Beatrice already reposing in the huge, mausoleum-like couch on a dais in the middle of the floor under a blue silk baldachin. It was adorned with silver curtains, and a coverlet, costly as the vestment of a priest, of cloth of gold and pearls.
'Bice,' he whispered caressingly; 'Bice, dost thou sleep? ' and he would have saluted her, but she repulsed him.