Sardou's Cleopatra — page 158: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. 143 you an empire. Come, let us go! I know not what your summons means. Icare not. I shall arrive too late to change anything, but I shall arrive in ample time for vengeance!” Like the incarnation of impending fate, she swept rapidly across the roof, until she reached the stone pillars, which flanked on either side the opening of the staircase. ‘Then, suddenly, as if by magic, the offended majesty of the outraged queen disappeared and the heartbreak of the for- saken woman asserted itself. The lines about her mouth softened and her eyes filled with tears. She turned, and with a mighty, unconquerable longing, stretched out her arms in the direction of Actium. “Oh, Antony, Antony! I could not hate thee so bitterly did I not love thee so well!” comicbooks (G(o) 3