Sardou's Cleopatra — page 99: what you’re looking at

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

$4 SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. | son, the god of fire, is the king of the thunder: he created the heavens, he created the earth. The evil isin Typhon; the good in Osiris, btother and divine spouse of the immortal Isis. ‘Toth, the revealer, invented writing; Toth knows all the: secrets that nature vails. ‘Tmei is justice; _ Athor is beauty; the union of both forms Truth. Amenti is the abyss into which souls descend, and where, after death, their judges await them. There their lives are revealed, and there are weighed their good and evil deeds.” The old man paused, and Cleopatra, support- .ing her head upon one rounded, polished arm, said, gravely: “Great are the gods, greater even than kings. I will be present to-morrow at the festival of Isis.” Serapion closed the book, which the acolyte bore away, and, bending low before his sovereign, replied : “The gods are gracious to us, when the queen prays to them; and the happy people imitate her piety.” Then to each in turn did Cleopatra, the great queen and arbiter of all, give audience. A philosopher of the school at Alexandria (E(e) cComicbooks