Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-28

Iury, ruSncd at me to Smlte me down. But with cry sprang straight at his threat for he was so heavy man that knew could not hope to throw him by strength ay, and gripped it. Therc chung, though his fists battered me like bludgeons, driving my thumbs into his throat. Round and round we turned, till at length he flung him. self to tho earth, trusting thus to shake me off. But l held on fast as we rolled over and over On the ground, till at last he grew faint for want of breath. Then l, being up- permest, draye my knee down upon his cheat. and, as believe, should thus have slain him in my rage, had not my uncle and others there gathered fallen upon mo and dragged me from him.
 And meanwhile, though I knew it not the chariot wherein sat the Queen, with elephants going before and lions led after 1t, had come even to the spot, and because of the tumult had been halted. I looked up, and thus torn, painting, my white garments stained with the blood that had rushed from the mouth and nostrils of the mighty Nubian, l for the first time saw Cleopatra face to face. Her chariot was all of gold, and drawn by nilk-white steeds. Therein she sat with two fair girls, clad in Greek attire, standing one on either side flaming the splendid car. On her head was the cov- ering of Isis, the golden horns between which rested the moons round disk and the emblem of Osiris throne, with the ureus twined around. Beneath the covering was tho vulture cap of gold, the blue enameled wings, and the vulture head with gemmy eyes, under which her long, dark tresses flowed toward her feet, About her round ed neck was broad cellar of gold studded with emera,ds and coral. Round her arms and wrists were bracelets of gold studded y,,ff oyS L. she held the holy symbol of life (crux ansa- ta) fashioned of crystal, and in the other the golden rod of royalty. Her breast was bare, but under was q garment that glis- tened like the scaly covering of a snake, everywhere sewn with gems. Beneath this robe was skirt of golden cloth, half hid by scarf of the broidered silk of Cos, falling in folds even to the sandals that, fastened with great pearls, adorned her white and tiny feet:
 All this diseeraed at glance. as it were. Then looked upon the face-that faea which seducee Caesar, ruined Egypt and was doomed to give Augustus the scepter of the world. l looked upon the dawless Grecian features, the rounded chin the full, rich lips, the chseled nostrils and the ears fashioned like delicate shells. I saw the forehead, low, broad and lovely, the crisped, dark hair falling in heavy waves that sparkled in tho sun, the arched eye brows and the long bent lashes. There be- fore me was the grandeur of her imperial shape. There burnt the wonderful eyes, hued like the Cyprian vlolet-eyes that seemed to sleep and brood on secret things as night broods upon the desert, and yet as the night to shifs, change and be illumined by cleans of sudden splendor born within their starry depths. All those wonders saw though have small skill In telling them. But even then I knew that it was not in these charms alone that the might of Cleopatra's beauty lay. Rath- CT was it in Q glory and radi- ance cast through the t1eshy covering from the fierce soul within. For she was Thing of flame like unto which no woman hath ever been nor ever will be. Even when she hrooded, the fire of her quick heart shone through her. But when she woke, and the lightning leapt suddenly from her eyes, and the passion=laden music of her speech ehimed upon her lips, ah then who ean tell how Cleopatra seemed? For in her met all the splendors that have been given to woman for her glory, and all the genius which man has drawn from Heaven. And with them dwelt every evil ot that greater sort which fearing nothing and making a place of play, and, snlilinG, Watered the growth Qf it's desires with the rich blood et men, In her breast they gathered, to- gether fashioning that Cleopatra whom no man may draw, and yet whom no man, hay ing seen, ever can forget. They fashioned her grand as the Spirit of Storm, lovely as Lightning, cruel as Pestilence, vet with heart; and what she did is knewn, Woe to tho world when such another comes to curse It!
 For 2 moment met Cleopatra's eyes as hos fo Ana <,,vn cause. At first they were somber and dark ,as though they saw, indeed, but the brain read naught. Then they awoke, und their very
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