Sardou's Cleopatra — page 32: what you’re looking at

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SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. 17 Antony looked down upon them, and his face grew | darker still. “You, notables of ‘Tarsus, are accused of giving aid and encouragement to the miserable assassins of noble Cesar. Have you aught to say in your defense ?” For an instant there was silence, and then one of the prisoners, an old man with long white hair, said, in a trembling voice: “Naught, my good lord, save to crave your clemency.” “Clemency! Were those murderers clement? But there is one I‘ do not see among you—she who was the instigator of itall! So,it seems that she has refused to obey our commands. ‘The hour has come, and the proud wanton is not here! I wait no longer !” Then, raising his hand with a gesture of com- mand, he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder: “Away with these men! Deliver them to the executioner !”’ But the words had scarcely died upon his lips when over the terror-stricken multitude stole softly the strains of enchanting music, and in an- other moment, around the promontory, upon the eomichooks (ECO) mn