Excerpt from The Star of Love
The Queen Amestris, known also by her Median name of Vashti, was reposing herself from the fatigues incident to many court functions in the cool recesses of a marble hall open on its eastern side to a green embowered garden. She was quite alone in the great room, save for the black slave who stood behind her couch wielding a gilded fan of palm. Without on the vine-wreathed terrace a score of attendants waited the will of their royal mistress in discreet silence, while in an adjoining chamber her tire-women were setting forth the scent bottles of gold, studded with uncut jewels, the silver brushes and combs, the boxes of precious unguents, and the ewers of scented waters.
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