Sardou's Cleopatra — page 84: what you’re looking at

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

SARDOU’S OLEOPATRA, 69 CHAPTER VI. ILLUSIONS DISPELLED. For six weeks had Pharon, the Greek slave, who, like Ixion, had fallen in love with one far above him, grasped in his arms only a cloud, and was doomed henceforth to suffer the torments of Hades—for six weeks had Pharon lain concealed in the vault beneath the Temple of Isis. Poor Iras, no less unfortunate than he, perhaps, had nursed him back to health. She did not-dare to tell him the truth, but by inference, if not by actual speech, had allowed him to believe that Cleopatra had, at the last moment, relented and spared his life. Whenever the Greek girl could be ered from her duties at the palace, which was not too often, she hastened to the temple, finding a strange sat- isfaction, half pain, half joy, in being near and ministering to the man she loved and whose life she had saved. Does one who really loves ever Gomicbooks (E(@) m =D)