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'We are safe, said the lady, dropping on the divan; 'I think we must have been seen. 'That was clearly impossible, said Cypros. 'Well, we must be seen at last, said the lady. 'Heigho! I never shall be able to receive them, if my heart beat so. 'I would let them wait a few days, sweet lady, said Cypros, 'and then you would get more used to them. 'I shall never be more used to them.
Agrippa had by Cypros two sons and three daughters, which daughters were named Bernice, Mariarune, and Drusius; but the names of the sons were Agrippa and Drusus, of which Drusus died before he came to the years of puberty; but their father, Agrippa, was brought up with his other brethren, Herod and Aristobulus, for these were also the sons of the son of Herod the Great by Bernice; but Bernice was the daughter of Costobarus and of Salome, who was Herod's sister.
At this moment Cypros, who was standing apart, waved her scarf, and exclaimed, 'Royal lady, I perceive in the distance the ever-faithful messenger; whereupon Astarte looked up, and, as yet invisible to the inexperienced glance of Tancred, recognised what was an infinitely small dusky speck, each moment becoming more apparent, until at length a bird was observed by all of them winging its way towards the Queen.
'I thought it was Now tell me, my Cypros, which of these two princes do you think is he who is one of us? 'Oh, really, sweet lady, I think they are both so handsome! 'Yet so unlike, said the lady. 'Well, they are unlike, said Cypros, 'and yet 'And what? 'The fair one has a complexion almost as radiant as your own, sweet lady. 'And eyes as blue: no, they are too light.
'Is it the ever-faithful Karaguus, said Astarte; 'or is it Ruby-lips that ever brings good news? 'It is Karaguus, said Cypros, as the bird drew nearer and nearer; 'but it is not Karaguus of Damascus. By the ring on its neck, it is Karaguus of Aleppo. The pigeon now was only a few yards above the head of the Queen.
So this Cypros set her husband free, and dismissed him to go on with his navigation to Italy, while she and her children departed for Judea.
'But I shall not be content, Cypros. Having seen them once, I wish to see them again, and one cannot always be walking by accident in the gallery. 'Then I would see them to-day, sweet lady. Shall I send for the noble Keferinis? 'I wish I were Cypros, and you were Hark! what is that? ''Tis only the antelope, sweet lady.
Overwhelmed by the fate of her father, she was at first insensible to her own, and was indeed so distracted that she delivered herself up to despair. She was beginning in some degree to collect her senses, and to survey her position with some comparative calmness, when she learnt from the visit of Cypros that Fakredeen and Tancred were, by a strange coincidence, under the same roof as herself.
He then pretended that he would do as he bid him; but when night came on, he cut his cables, and went off, and sailed to Alexandria, where he desired Alexander the alabarch to lend him two hundred thousand drachmae; but he said he would not lend it to him, but would not refuse it to Cypros, as greatly astonished at her affection to her husband, and at the other instances of her virtue; so she undertook to repay it.
And as he came back to Tyre, he went up into Judea also, and fell upon Tarichee, and presently took it, and carried about thirty thousand Jews captives; and slew Pitholaus, who succeeded Aristobulus in his seditious practices, and that by the persuasion of Antipater, who proved to have great interest in him, and was at that time in great repute with the Idumeans also: out of which nation he married a wife, who was the daughter of one of their eminent men, and her name was Cypros, by whom he had four sons, Phasael, and Herod, who was afterwards made king, and Joseph, and Pheroras; and a daughter, named Salome.
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