This superb monarch thus answered: "Princess, whose knowledge and whose
crimes have merited a conspicuous rank in my empire, thou dost well to
employ the leisure that remains; for the flames and torments, which are
ready to seize on thy heart, will not fail to provide thee with full
employment." He said this, and was lost in the curtains of his
tabernacle.
Carathis paused for a moment with surprise; but, resolved to follow the
advice of Eblis, she assembled all the choirs of Genii, and all the
Dives, to pay her homage; thus marched she in triumph through a vapour of
perfumes, amidst the acclamations of all the malignant spirits, with most
of whom she had formed a previous acquaintance; she even attempted to
dethrone one of the Solimans for the purpose of usurping his place, when
a voice, proceeding from the abyss of Death, proclaimed, "All is
accomplished!" Instantaneously the haughty forehead of the intrepid
princess was corrugated with agony; she uttered a tremendous yell, and
fixed, no more to be withdrawn, her right hand upon her heart, which was
become a receptacle of eternal fire.
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