Sardou's Cleopatra — page 170: what you’re looking at

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SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. 155 “And yet.” he said, slowly, “he has left you to join the queen. You see that he deceives you.” Octavia’s face became sad again. “He will write to me, soon,” she murmured. “He will not write to you!” retorted Octavius, violently. “I know all his projects, his every step. He has gone to seek Cleopatra again; that is no longer a mystery. They will arm against me all the kings of the Orient. In spite of us, Antony is assured of the aid of those whom he has conquered; they will all fight for him. The queen will have as allies her powerful neigh- bors ; Adallas, King of Thrace, Herod of Judea, Amyntas and Polemon, the King of the Medes, the King of Lybia, the King of Arabia, and twenty others, will furnish her soldiers and gold. And that is not all. Antony dares to accuse your brother. He complains loudly that the division of empire was an arbitrary one. I con- quered Sicily, and yet he demands half of it. He declares that I deposed Lepidus, wrongfully aud mercilessly, that I have confiscated all his _ property to my own use, and that I have ships of | his which I will not give up. And every day I hear of some fresh insult that his lips have uttered. All this proves to me that Antony is - | ft ert comichooks / GO