Sardou's Cleopatra — page 54: what you’re looking at

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SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. : 39 girl, “who, the better to succeed, employed a stratagem ?”’ ‘Kings are not so easily condemned to death.” A look of terror crept into the girl’s blue eyes, --and she sprang hurriedly to her feet. “Condemned to death!” she echoed. ‘True! and I stay chattering here. Uncle! the queen is cruel! Oh,I am nota queen! Slave though he be, he is a Greek—-he is of my country.” “It is not for you, Iras, nor for me to judge the queen,” replied the priest, gravely. ‘“This man is condemned; what matters to us his crime? What matters to us whether he lives or dies ?” “To you nothing, perhaps. To me every- thing.” bras (7) “Yes,” she continued, impetuously, “every- thing. I love him. I know that with your knowledge you can save him. I swear to you, if you refuse, not one life will be sacrificed, but two. For I will not survive him.” The old man caught her by the wrist. “Girl!” he exclaimed, “you are mad!” “Perhaps! But I will do what I say.” The old priest was greatly agitated. He saw that she was in earnest. If there was anything GEomicbooks (el @)