Sardou's Cleopatra — page 27: what you’re looking at

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ee 12 SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. “And yet you do not foresee the end of this trial ?” Ventidius stared at the Egyptian for a mo- ment, and then a light broke over his rugged face. Striking his hands together with a loud noise, he exclaimed : “By Hercules, I see your drift!” Diomedes smiled. “The triumvir will be convinced that he has accused the queen unjustly,” he said, calmly. “Fool that I was,” exclaimed the old soldier, ‘not to Have foreseen this, and endeavored to calm the general. With her boundless ambition and _ sensuous nature, she covets Antony and the Ro- man Hmpire. She would like to sway Rome and the triumvir. Her only ambition is to rule one day at the Capitol. J remember! I remember! - Have I not already seen Cesar a tool to all her plans, and obey her voice like one of her own subjects? She it was whom imperial Cesar loved so much that Rome had pity on him, revolted, proscribed Cleopatra, and Cesar left her. But for a long time, in spite of all, he remained faith- ful to her. Antony will have a worse fate than _that of Ceesar, his model. Where Cesar tottered, Antony will fall,” ‘comicbooks,co