Sardou's Cleopatra — page 68: what you’re looking at

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

a SARDOUWS CLEOPATRA. 53 naked arms were twisted two strings of immense pearls. Priceless rings flashed upon her fingers and upon the toes of her bare feet, feet, with their nails as polished as onyx, more perfect than the alabaster feet of the goddess Isis. Antony, with his head resting upon Cleopatra’s shoulder, felt as if he had been transported by some magician into the realms of enchantment. Ata sign from the queen, there swarmed into the center of the halla motley crowd of dwarfs and painted buffoons who executed grotesque dances and combats. To them succeeded young Greek girls who performed a slow, swaying, voluptuous dance with marvelous unanimity of movement. ‘Then Cleopatra, Keypt’s Queen, and Goddess Evergetes, among the immortals, arose from her throne, cast aside her royal mantle, re- placed her diadem of serpents with a wreath of lotus flowers, adjusted to her tiny hands crotali of gold, instruments not unlike the Spanish cas- tanets, and began to dance before Antony as half a century after Herodias danced before Herod. But while Herodias danced for a head, Cleopatra danced for a heart. With her beautiful rounded arms raised high above her head, and her lithe body balanced upon the tips of her rosy toes, (Ee) Gomicbooks