Sardou's Cleopatra — page 221: what you’re looking at

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206 SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. “Silence! I forbid you to pronounce that name. - Away, I say, and bear her back my answer: No! No! No! and, ten thousand times, no!” » Sorrowfully Charmian turned away, and made her way back to where her escort was awaiting her. Ventidius, a great joy on his honest old face, struck his hands together, and cried aloud: “Now, thanks be to Mars and all the gods! Antony is our own once more. At last he detests this black-browed enchantress, at last he knows her! No! No! No! and ten thousand times no! Those words will change the destiny of empires. Ceesar conspires in vain against liberty. Rome will soon resound with the cry: ‘Brave Antony 1s come again !’” “Brave!” retorted Antony, with intense bitter- ness. “Who can now boast of bravery? The brave Antony fled before the cowardly Octavius.” “No more of that, general,” exclaimed Ven- tidius; “the time for repining is past. Be now, as ever, our leader. You have yet to learn that Octavius is not three days’ march from here. If you do not lead us, it will be our ruin, for, with or without you, we are determined to risk the battle.” ) ~ €omicbooks.co =