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The second month of their flight a letter arrived from Archibius, in which he informed them that they might soon form plans for their return, for Alexas, the Syrian, had proved a malicious traitor. He had not performed the commission entrusted to him of winning Herod to Antony's cause, but treacherously deserted his patron and remained with the King of the Jews.
She cannot spare you now." "More easily, perhaps, than you," replied Charmian; "yet in many things my services might be hard to replace." "Nothing under the sun could do it," cried Iras eagerly. "If, in these days of trouble, she should lose you too " "Still darker ones are approaching," interrupted Archibius positively. "Perhaps you will learn all to-morrow.
"Do you imagine that she would go with me?" he asked, in a faintly reproachful tone. "No. Fortunately, we have older friends, and at their head is one who happens to be your uncle and at the same time is wax in the hands of the Queen." "Archibius?" exclaimed Iras. "Ah! if he could persuade her to do so!" "He will try. He, too, is anxious about the lad.
Anukis opened the door to them. She had remained undisturbed, and it was a pleasure to Archibius to give the faithful, clever freedwoman an account of the matter with his own lips. He could have bestowed no richer reward upon the modest servant, who listened to his words as if they were a revelation.
"True, the skill with which, to please Antony, she daily offered him for years fresh charms for every sense, was not a matter of accident." "And this," cried Barine, "this was undertaken by the woman who had recognized the chief good in peace of mind!" "Ay," replied Archibius thoughtfully, "yet this was the inevitable result. Pleasure had been the young girl's object in life.
Iras, on the contrary, is delighted with the opportunity to speak on subjects connected with the government of the country, and especially the ceaseless, momentous game with Rome and the men who guide her destiny." "That game is lost," Archibius broke in with so much earnestness that Charmian started, repeating in a low, timid tone: "Lost?" "Forever," said Archibius, "unless
Then, beckoning to Charmian and Archibius, she motioned towards Alexander and the twins, saying, as she saw tears glittering in the eyes of both: "I know you have lost this happiness for my sake. For each one of these children a great empire would not be too high a price; for them all What does earth contain that I would not bestow? Yet what can I still call my own?"
It is un worthy, shameful! If Barine goes with Archibius, her time will scarcely hang heavy on his estates. I think I know some one who will speedily follow to bear her company. Here, Sasis! the bearers! To the Tower of Nilus, before the Gate of the Sun!"
"I imagine the whole Nile journey," interrupted Barine, "to be like the fairy voyage, when the purple silk sails of Cleopatra's galley bore Antony along the Cydnus." "No, no," replied Archibius, "she first learned from Antony the art of filling this earthly existence with fleeting pleasures. Caesar demanded more. Her intellect offered him the highest enjoyment." Here he hesitated.
The second month of their flight a letter arrived from Archibius, in which he informed them that they might soon form plans for their return, for Alexas, the Syrian, had proved a malicious traitor. He had not performed the commission entrusted to him of winning Herod to Antony's cause, but treacherously deserted his patron and remained with the King of the Jews.
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