A tall , elegant girl looked look at Montraville and blushed blush : he instantly recollected recollect the features of Charlotte Temple , whom he had once seen see and danced dance with at a ball ball at Portsmouth .

It was towards the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion , and while the pestilence pestilence raged most furiously abroad , that the Prince Prospero entertained entertain his thousand friends at a masked ball ball of the most unusual magnificence .