Sardou's Cleopatra — page 226: what you’re looking at

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

SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. 211 CHAPTER XVI. OUEEN AND GODDESS. Perhaps the most superb of all the magnificent palaces of Cleopatra was the Palace of the Ptole- mies, on which she had lavished all the resources of her enormous riches, all the wealth of her re- fined taste. Built in the eastern part of the city of Alexandria, at that time one of the finest cities of the world, and the center of learning and theol- ogy, it overlooked the Canopic mouth of the Nile. On one side it communicated directly with the mausoleum which Cleopatra had erected for her Own monument, a gigantic pile of sculptured stone, with no visible openings save the door, set far in between two enormous sitting statues, and the broad window above it. Across the front were hieroglyphics setting forth the mighty deeds and extraordinary accomplishments of “‘the queen that lives forever.” On the opposite side of the palace was a spacious garden, across which was a (Ele) Comicbooks 3