Sardou's Cleopatra — page 77: what you’re looking at

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62 - BARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. land demands you, and can you shamefully for- _ get it for an unworthy love!” This time, his words were answered. With a gesture of angry menace, Antony strode toward him. “Silence!” he thundered. “Not one word more like that! How dare——” But, swift as an arrow, the queen had descended to his side, and laid her soft hand upon his arm. “Not for me must you quarrel,” she said. “Remember, this man was the conqueror of the Parthians.” As Antony looked into the face he adored, his anger melted. He threw his arm about her, and drew her toward him. ‘Then, oe again to Ventidius, he said: “Tt is to the woman you have reviled that you owe your pardon. ‘Take back to ungrateful Rome this my answer. Let her extricate herself from her difficulties as best she may. Let Octavius do as he chooses. I care not. I am happy here and here I will remain.” In an ecstasy of joy, Cleopatra raised her hes to his face. “My Antony!’ she murmured. “Am I then all this to you ?” '. comicbooks.co