Sardou's Cleopatra — page 176: what you’re looking at

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SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. 161 rugged virtues and downright honesty she herself had learned to respect, she smiled, and stretched out both her hands to him. “Tell me of my lord, good Ventidius,” she said. “Is he well ?” “Ay, madam, well in body, but sick in spirit. Ever watching for a sign from Egypt.” Octavia shuddered. ‘The rumor is true, then,” she said, her sweet lips trembling. ‘He has sent for Cleopatra.” “Only too true, madam.” “May Juno aid me, then. I fear my mission is in vain. Where is my lord?” “Above, madam, in the garden, his eyes ever scanning the east.” “Lead me to him.” Slowly they approached to where Antony stood, with his back leaning against a tree, and his eyes fixed upon that point in the distant horizon where first Cleopatra’s fleet might be expected to appear. He was so absorbed that he did not notice the approach of Octavia and Ventidius until the latter touched him upon the shoulder. “General, I bring you a visitor that should drive away your melancholy.” Antony turned, and as his eyes fell upon Oc- Eomicbooks