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It was rare to see their eyes when they fell upon them: they grew large as apples with avarice and wonder. And now leave me, Harmachis, for I am weary. The memory of that dreadful night is with me yet." I bowed and rose to go, and yet stood wavering. "Pardon me, Cleopatra; it is of our marriage." "Our marriage! Why, are we not indeed already wed?" she answered. "Yes; but not before the world.
And, indeed, something of my thought must have been written on my face in a language that she could read, for she whispered in my ear: "Ay, it is pity, is it not? Harmachis, being but a man, methinks that thou wilt need all thy ghostly strength to nerve thee to the deed!" I frowned, but before I could frame an answer she touched me lightly on the arm and pointed to the Queen.
Did she this thing of her own will? Judge gently, Harmachis, as wert thou I thou wouldst be judged. Remember that a Queen is never free. She is, indeed, but the point and instrument of those forces politic with which the iron books of history are graved.
There, waste not the precious time in haggling o'er the pelf not yet art thou all a merchant, Harmachis;" and, without more words, she thrust the pieces into the leather bag that hung across my shoulders.
When the sign comes to thee, arise, go to Cleopatra, and in such manner as I shall put into thy heart do Heaven's vengeance upon her! And now for thyself one word, for thou hast put Me from thee, Harmachis, and no more shall I come face to face with thee till, cycles hence, the last fruit of thy sin hath ceased to be upon this earth!
I wouldn't believe it if I found a hundred nasty stone beards lying buried in the sand under her chin, instead of one, which could easily have been put there to deceive people. Probably King Harmachis had the Sphinx altered to look like him. No wonder she shuddered at such profanation, and shed her false beard. There you have my theory.
Ay, Harmachis, she can do these things, for Nature ever fights upon her side; and while she does them she can deceive and shape a secret end in which thou hast no part. And thus Woman rules the world. For her are wars; for her men spend their strength in gathering gains; for her they do well and ill, and seek for greatness, to find oblivion.
Strange whims and fancies blow across it like light and contrary airs upon a summer sea, and I cannot read her purpose." "Well, well; enough of Cleopatra. Hast thou seen our uncle?" "Yes, royal Harmachis." "And hast thou the last lists?" "Yes; here they are," and she drew them from her bosom. "Here is the list of those who, after the Queen, must certainly be put to the sword.
Not but what thou art wise, for it would scarce beseem thee, Harmachis, to show thy face openly in Egypt." I heard, and felt my passion rise within me, for I could ill bear this fair girl's scorn. "Hast thou never a word without a sting?" I asked. "Know, then, that I went whither thou hadst not dared to go, to gather means to hold Egypt from the grasp of Antony."
Thou knowest, Harmachis, how she won; and thus the shaft of vengeance that I loosed fell upon my own head. For on the morrow I knew that I had sinned for naught, that the burden of my betrayal had been laid on the wretched Paulus, and that I had but ruined the cause to which I was sworn and given the man I loved to the arms of wanton Egypt."
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