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en- uhto me- for bring thee tidings."
Then he lifted up his head MARRIED was
his face by sorrow; his tangled HAIR, griz-
zled with years, hung about his hollow eyes,
and white On his chin was the stubble Of an
unshaved beard. Squalid was his robe, and
more wretched his aspect than that Of the
poorest beggar at the Temple gates. To
this, then, had the love Of Cleopatra brought
the glorious and removed Antony, afore-
time Master of Half the Worldl
"What will We with me, Lady" he asked
''who would perish here alonel And who
is this man who comes to gaze on fallen and
forsaken Antony"
This is Olympus, noble Antony, that
wise physician, the skilled In augrries, Of
whom thou hast heard much, and who Cleo
patra, ever mindful Of thy welfare, though
but little doth thou think Of hers, hath sent
to minister to thee"
sand can thy physician minister to grief
such as my grief Can his drugs give me
back my galleys, my honor and my peacel
Nay Away with thy physiciani What is
thy tidingsl Quick-out with it Hath Can
idius. pcrchance, conquered Cesarl Tell
me but that, and thou shalt have province
for thy guerdon-ayl and if Octavianus is
dead, twenty thousand sestertia to fill its
treasury. Speak-nay; speak notl I fear
the opening Of thy lips as never feared an
earthly thingl Surely the wheel Of Fortune
hath gone round and Canidius hath con:
queredl Is 1t not so, Nay-out with 1t
can no more!"
10 noble Antony" she said, "steel thy
heart to hear that which needs must tell
thee Canidius IS in Alexandria. He hath
fed fast and far, and this is his report. For
seven whole days did the legions wait the
coming Of Antony, as aforetime, to lead
them to victory, putting aside the offers OF
the ENJOYS Of Caesar But Antony came
not. And then twas runlored that Antony
/ had fed to Tenarus, drawn thither by
Cleopatra The man who first brought that
tale to the camp the DICTIONARIES cried shame
on--ay, and beat him to the death But
ever 1t grew, until at length there was nc
more room to doubt; and then, 0 Antony
thy officers slipped one by one away tc
Caesar, and where the officers go there the
men follow. Nor is this all the story; fol
thy allies-Bocchus of Africa, Tarcondi
motus Of Cilicia, Mithridates of Com
magene, Adallas Of Thrace, Philadelphus Of
Paphlagonia, Archelaus of Cappadocia
Herod of Judea, Amyntas of Galatia, Pole
mon of Pontus, and Malchus of Arabla-all,
all have fed or bid their generals fly bach
to whence they came; and already theil
ambassadors do crave cold Cesar's elem
ency."
"Hast done thy croaking. thou raven in 4
peacock's dress, or is there more to comet
asked the smitten man, lifting his white
and trembling face from the shelter of his
hands. "Tell me more; say that Egypt.
dead in all her beauty, say that Octavianu!
lowers at the Canopic gate, and that, headed
by dead Cicero, all the ghosts Of hell d.
audibly shrek out the fall of Antonyl Yea
gather up every woe that can o'erwheln
those who once were great, and loose then
on the hoary head of him whom--in tn!
gentleness- thou art still pleased to name
the noble Antonyp"
SHAY, my lord, have done"
'Nay, and 80 have / done-done, quite
donel IT'S altogether finished, and thus
seal the end" and snatching sword from
his couch he would, indeed, have slain him
self had not sprung forward and graspeC
his hand. For it was not my purpose tina