Sardou's Cleopatra — page 187: what you’re looking at

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172 SARDOU'S CLEOPATRA, With a quick gesture, as if to shut out forever the vision that had been for an instant before her eyes, Cleopatra turned her back to the sea, and looked upward to the promontory where Antony was, with a smile of conscious power upon her pertect lips. “Go on, Kephren!” she said, in a voice of ring- ing command. | Slowly they ascended the winding path, until they came to athick grove of ilex trees, into which they vanished. A quarter of an hour afterward Kephren emerged alone, still carrying in his arms the rug, but which now seemed much more bulkish and heavier. He completed the ascent and crossed the garden. At the door of the villa he was stopped by a guard, who demanded his business. “A rug for the room of the general.” After some parleying he was allowed to enter, and was conducted by a slave to Antony’s private apartment, a room with large windows opening to the ground and looking out upon the gardens and the sea below. Here he deposited his burden upon the floor, at the foot of the bed, and followed the slave from the room, | comicbooks €oO