Sardou's Cleopatra — page 90: what you’re looking at

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SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. 9 her devotion cast aside like a worthless bauble.” “So! You have followed her?” said Pharon, out of whose face all light had died. ‘There was but one woman on earth to him. What mattered the others? ‘To Iras he was grateful, ina certain sense, but there all feeling ended. “Yes,” returned Diomedes, “I followed her, at first, out of idle curiosity, and then, for a different motive, for what might be to my own advantage.” “Explain !”? The whole expression of the Egyptian’s face changed, and he spoke in a far different tone from what he had used before. “Listen, and weigh well what I have to say. You, who were condemned to death, are still alive. How this has happened I know not. Kephren has reported that you kept your word. What jugglery has been used matters but little.” “Jugglery!” interrupted Pharon, angrily. “There was no jugglery. I did keep my word. I took the poison. But before it was too late, the handmaiden of the queen, who was ready with an antidote, saved my life. Cleopatra had repented her cruel edict and had sent Iras to save me.” “Cleopatra repented!” echoed the other, with a sneering laugh. “She repent! As soon expect Eomilchboo CSG