Sardou's Cleopatra — page 55: what you’re looking at

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

40 SARDOU'’S CLEOPATRA. in the ‘world that he cared for, it was this child of his dead sister—that sister who had been young enough to be his daughter, who, twenty years be- fore had been wooed and won by a young Hellene, and who had sailed away from her native land, | never to return. Both husband and wife were! dead, leaving one daughter, Iras, whom Serapion| had brought from Greece three years before. The queen had taken a fancy to the golden-haired, blue-eyed girl and had taken her into her own household, where she had become a great favorite with her royal mistress. Iras saw that her uncle was waukion and she proceeded eagerly: “Uncle, dear uncle, you can save him! You will save him! For my sake! Listen! At day- break—soon, soon now—he is to be before the _ shrine of Isis, where Kephren, the captain of the guard, is to meet him, with a cup containing a new poison come from Thessaly. Uncle, what ~ can be done ?” The priest stood lost in thought for a moment, and then, while Iras eagerly watched his every movement he turned and unlocked a small cabi- net which was imbedded in the wall of the room. Within were vials of all sizes and shapes, With (eo) - comicbooks