Sardou's Cleopatra — page 106: what you’re looking at

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SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. 91 “How startled he was,” said Charmian, “when I raised your vail. How dazzled he was by your beauty.” “Yes,” said Cleopatra. “He intended to pun- ish me—me! He accused me openly of having aided the savage Brutus; but, at the sound of my voice alone, that terrible suspicion took flight. He spoke no more to me of Brutus. Oh! Char- mian, you did well to recall the joy of that day. When he returns, he shall see me again, as he saw me then. Go and bring the crown I wore that day and that he admired. Go! I wish to see vit.” But Charmian had scarcely departed when Cleopatra’s mood changed again. “No,” she said to Iras, her face sloudintee over. “I was wrong to listen to her. That memory but saddens me the more. In his absence, it is vain to resist this hideous gloom.” With a gesture of hopeless longing, she flung herself down upon the cushions. Iras looked at her mistress with a sorrowful expression in her blue eyes. “Ah!” she thought, “her love is returned, while mine ” anaes she approached the cccnintent queen. gS (G(0) » €COmicboo