Book Name : Basalmo The Magician
Writer Name : Alex. Dumos
Balsamo The Magician is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, propelled by the life and character of Count Cagliostro.
This is the initial segment of an arrangement named “Diaries of a specialist” which proceeds with The Queen’s Necklace, Pitou and La Comtesse de Charny.
The historical backdrop of the genuine Count Cagliostro, an Italian swashbuckler and soothsayer, is covered in talk, promulgation, and mystery.
He is said to have had some influence in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which included Marie Antoinette and Prince Louis de Rohan,
and was held in the Bastille for a very long time however at last absolved, when no proof could be found interfacing him to the undertaking.
Alexandre Dumas utilized Cagliostro in a few of his books, particularly in Balsamo The Magician.
Section I. THE GRAND MASTER OF THE SECRET SOCIETY. On the left bank of the Rhine, close to where the Selz creek springs forward, the lower region ranges ascent of numerous mountains, of which the shuddering protuberances appear to surge northerly like crowds of terrified bison, vanishing in the fog.
These mountains overshadow an abandoned area, framing a watchman around one more grandiose than the rest, whose stone forehead, delegated with a destroyed religious community, resists the skies. It is Thunder Mount.
On the 6th of May, 1770, as the incredible waterway wavelets were colored in the rainbow tones of the setting sun, a man who had ridden from Maintz, after an excursion through Poland,
followed the way out of Danenfels Village until it finished, and, at that point, landing and driving his horse, tied it up in the pine woods. “Hush up, my great Djerid (lance),”
said the horseman to the creature with this Arabian name which bespoke its blood, and its speed;
“and farewell, on the off chance that we never meet again.”
He cast a look round him as though he presumed he were caught. The thorn neighed and pawed with one foot. “Right, Djerid, the risk is around us.
” But as though he had decided not to battle with it, the bold more bizarre drew the charges from a couple of impressive guns and cast the powder and slugs on the turf prior to supplanting them in the holsters.
He wore a steel-hilted blade which he took off with the belt, and attached it to the stirrup calfskin in order to swing from the seat horn point down.
These odd conventions being done, he ungloved, and looking through his pockets created nail-scissors and folding knife, which he flung behind him without hoping to see whither they went.
Drawing the longest conceivable breath, he dove indiscriminately into the shrubbery, for there was no hint of a way.
