[The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Talisman CHAPTER III 10/24
So lovely were these seven sisters when they stood in the darksome vault, disrobed of all clothing saving a cymar of white silk, that their charms moved the hearts of those who were not mortal.
Thunder muttered, the earth shook, the wall of the vault was rent, and at the chasm entered one dressed like a hunter, with bow and shafts, and followed by six others, his brethren.
They were tall men, and, though dark, yet comely to behold; but their eyes had more the glare of those of the dead than the light which lives under the eyelids of the living.
'Zeineb,' said the leader of the band--and as he spoke he took the eldest sister by the hand, and his voice was soft, low, and melancholy--'I am Cothrob, king of the subterranean world, and supreme chief of Ginnistan.
I and my brethren are of those who, created out of the pure elementary fire, disdained, even at the command of Omnipotence, to do homage to a clod of earth, because it was called Man.
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