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Over some parts of the library, descended curtains of silk of various

dyes, none of which I ever saw lifted while I was there; and I felt

somehow that it would be presumptuous in me to venture to look within

them But the use of the other books seemed free; and day after day I

came to the library, threw myself on one of the many sumptuous eastern

carpets, which lay here and there on the floor, and read, and read,

until weary; if that can be designated as weariness, which was rather

the faintness of rapturous delight; or until, soo abroad, in the hope that a cool gentle breeze

bath, the li spirit within had withered no less than

the glow of the blazing sun without

One peculiarity of these books, or at least most of those I looked into,

I must make a somewhat vain attempt to describe

If, for instance, it was a book of es before I see over discovered

truth, and constructing the intellectual machine whereby to communicate

the discovery to my fellow men With some books, however, of this

nature, it seereat way