Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    After the festivities were all over, Zorastro betook himself to his room at the “White Horse ” once more, resolved, for a time at least, to remain at Ledzburg, so he might complete several manuscripts on which he had long been engaged. Locked in his room, the window of which looked over the fast-flowing river and the mighty Alps beyond, each day found him more and more engrossed in his work. Night after night he bent o’er his table, writing by the light of a little lamp which stood at his elbow, or pacing the floor, lost in deep thought. Sleep he forgot, and food he scarce touched, although it was brought and laid outside his door by the good dame of the inn. When weariness came over him, he would take a phial from a small leather case that lay on a shelf by the bedside, and moisten his lips with a few drops of its con-
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