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oo easy to be worthy of a descendant of the gods. Besides, there was no time: all was over in a moment. The attack came just where we least expected it. BELZANOR. That shews that the Romans are cowards. BEL AFFRIS. They care nothing about cowardice, these Romans: they fight to win. The pride and honor of war are nothin... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.358 | 0.728 | ["war_conflict", "ethics", "faith_spirituality"] | 478 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565157 | [
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Affris ). Ay: the tale of the battle. BEL AFFRIS. Know then, that I am a novice in the guard of the temple of Ra in Memphis, serving neither Cleopatra nor her brother Ptolemy, but only the high gods. We went a journey to inquire of Ptolemy why he had driven Cleopatra into Syria, and how we of Egypt should deal with the... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.843 | 0.866 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 430 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565193 | [
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aesar at Pharsalia. What, think ye, did we learn? Even that Caesar is coming also in hot pursuit of his foe, and that Ptolemy has slain Pompey, whose severed head he holds in readiness to present to the conqueror. ( Sensation among the guardsmen. ) Nay, more: we found that Caesar is already come; for we had not made ha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.847 | 0.874 | [] | 467 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565217 | [
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landing they had gone out to withstand. BELZANOR. And ye, the temple guard! Did you not withstand these legions? BEL AFFRIS. What man could, that we did. But there came the sound of a trumpet whose voice was as the cursing of a black mountain. Then saw we a moving wall of shields coming towards us. You know how the hea... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.809 | 0.742 | ["war_conflict"] | 492 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565243 | [
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ing told them so ). Did I not say it? BEL AFFRIS. When the wall came nigh, it changed into a line of men—common fellows enough, with helmets, leather tunics, and breastplates. Every man of them flung his javelin: the one that came my way drove through my shield as through a papyrus—lo there! ( he points to the bandage ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.83 | 0.892 | [] | 500 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565265 | [
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th short swords almost as soon as their javelins. When a man is close to you with such a sword, you can do nothing with our weapons: they are all too long. THE PERSIAN. What did you do? BEL AFFRIS. Doubled my fist and smote my Roman on the sharpness of his jaw. He was but mortal after all: he lay down in a stupor; and ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.805 | 0.636 | [] | 447 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565302 | [
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not to the strong; but the race was to the swift. The Romans, who have no chariots, sent a cloud of horsemen in pursuit, and slew multitudes. Then our high priest’s captain rallied a dozen descendants of the gods and exhorted us to die fighting. I said to myself: surely it is safer to stand than to lose my breath and b... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.9 | ["ethics", "faith_spirituality"] | 511 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565348 | [
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full of sheep, except for the pride and honor of war, of which these Romans know nothing. So we escaped with our lives; and I am come to warn you that you must open your gates to Caesar; for his advance guard is scarce an hour behind me; and not an Egyptian warrior is left standing between you and his legions. THE SENT... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.843 | 0.868 | ["war_conflict", "ethics"] | 433 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565384 | [
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palace. ) BELZANOR. Nail him to the door, quick! ( The guardsmen rush for him with their spears; but he is too quick for them. ) Now this news will run through the palace like fire through stubble. BEL AFFRIS. What shall we do to save the women from the Romans? BELZANOR. Why not kill them? PERSIAN. Because we should ha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.649 | 0.736 | ["salary"] | 487 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565413 | [
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ain power ). O subtle one! O serpent! BEL AFFRIS. But your Queen? BELZANOR. True: we must carry off Cleopatra. BEL AFFRIS. Will ye not await her command? BELZANOR. Command! a girl of sixteen! Not we. At Memphis ye deem her a Queen: here we know better. I will take her on the crupper of my horse. When we soldiers have c... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.829 | 0.736 | ["war_conflict"] | 488 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565472 | [
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, and put their commands into her mouth. PERSIAN. Listen to me, Belzanor. BELZANOR. Speak, O subtle beyond thy years. THE PERSIAN. Cleopatra’s brother Ptolemy is at war with her. Let us sell her to him. THE GUARDSMEN. O subtle one! O serpent! BELZANOR. We dare not. We are descended from the gods; but Cleopatra is desce... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.732 | ["family", "war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 500 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565537 | [
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gifts we should live the lives of dogs. PERSIAN. It is true: the Queen’s guard cannot live on its pay. But hear me further, O ye kinsmen of Osiris. THE GUARDSMEN. Speak, O subtle one. Hear the serpent begotten! PERSIAN. Have I heretofore spoken truly to you of Caesar, when you thought I mocked you? GUARDSMEN. Truly, tr... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.73 | ["salary"] | 507 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565566 | [
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makes them his friends and counselors. BELZANOR. Faugh! This rule of women will be the ruin of Egypt. THE PERSIAN. Let it rather be the ruin of Rome! Caesar grows old now: he is past fifty and full of labors and battles. He is too old for the young women; and the old women are too wise to worship him. BEL AFFRIS. Take ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.629 | 0.732 | ["war_conflict", "economy", "education"] | 489 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565595 | [
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But she already troubles men’s wisdom. BELZANOR. Ay: that is because she is descended from the river Nile and a black kitten of the sacred White Cat. What then? PERSIAN. Why, sell her secretly to Ptolemy, and then offer ourselves to Caesar as volunteers to fight for the overthrow of her brother and the rescue of our Qu... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.716 | ["faith_spirituality", "education"] | 460 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565621 | [
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to us if we come with her picture in our mouths. He will conquer and kill her brother, and reign in Egypt with Cleopatra for his Queen. And we shall be her guard. GUARDSMEN. O subtlest of all the serpents! O admiration! O wisdom! BEL AFFRIS. He will also have arrived before you have done talking, O word spinner. BELZAN... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.871 | 0.742 | ["education", "philosophy"] | 508 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565644 | [
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come. Speak to Belzanor. A WOMAN. Oh, keep back. You are thrusting me on the spearheads. A huge grim woman, her face covered with a network of tiny wrinkles, and her eyes old, large, and wise; sinewy handed, very tall, very strong; with the mouth of a bloodhound and the jaws of a bulldog, appears on the threshold. She ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.36 | 0.726 | ["networking"] | 500 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565670 | [
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chief nurse. BELZANOR ( with solemn arrogance ). Ftatateeta: I am Belzanor, the captain of the Queen’s guard, descended from the gods. FTATATEETA ( retorting his arrogance with interest ). Belzanor: I am Ftatateeta, the Queen’s chief nurse; and your divine ancestors were proud to be painted on the wall in the pyramids ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.81 | 0.864 | ["faith_spirituality", "family"] | 503 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565694 | [
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pushes her way through the crowd and confronts the spear points undismayed. FTATATEETA. Then fly and save yourselves, O cowardly sons of the cheap clay gods that are sold to fish porters; and leave us to shift for ourselves. BELZANOR. Not until you have first done our bidding, O terror of manhood. Bring out Cleopatra t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.871 | 0.89 | ["faith_spirituality", "war_conflict"] | 508 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565721 | [
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ens to cut her throat. ) FTATATEETA ( savagely ). Touch me, dog; and the Nile will not rise on your fields for seven times seven years of famine. BELZANOR ( frightened, but desperate ). I will sacrifice: I will pay. Or stay. ( To the Persian ) You, O subtle one: your father’s lands lie far from the Nile. Slay her. PERS... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.849 | 0.74 | ["salary", "faith_spirituality", "family"] | 493 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565760 | [
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TATEETA. Persian: as Osiris lives, I do not know. I chid her for bringing evil days upon us by talking to the sacred cats of the priests, and carrying them in her arms. I told her she would be left alone here when the Romans came as a punishment for her disobedience. And now she is gone—run away—hidden. I speak the tru... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.848 | 0.724 | ["philosophy", "faith_spirituality"] | 476 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565800 | [
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ft shoulder ). Forbear her yet a moment, Persian. ( To Ftatateeta, very significantly ) Mother: your gods are asleep or away hunting; and the sword is at your throat. Bring us to where the Queen is hid, and you shall live. FTATATEETA ( contemptuously ). Who shall stay the sword in the hand of a fool, if the high gods p... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.643 | 0.862 | ["faith_spirituality", "family"] | 433 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565829 | [
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leopatra fears me; but she fears the Romans more. There is but one power greater in her eyes than the wrath of the Queen’s nurse and the cruelty of Caesar; and that is the power of the Sphinx that sits in the desert watching the way to the sea. What she would have it know, she tells into the ears of the sacred cats; an... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.315 | 0.806 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565854 | [
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e ) Taste death. FTATATEETA. Not from thee, baby. ( She snatches his ankle from under him and flies stooping along the palace wall, vanishing in the darkness within its precinct. Bel Affris roars with laughter as the Persian tumbles. The guardsmen rush out of the palace with Belzanor and a mob of fugitives, mostly carr... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.648 | 0.718 | [] | 485 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565903 | [
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e, and the company of creatures such as I myself. I have found flocks and pastures, men and cities, but no other Caesar, no air native to me, no man kindred to me, none who can do my day’s deed, and think my night’s thought. In the little world yonder, Sphinx, my place is as high as yours in this great desert; only I w... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.904 | [] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565923 | [
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d, look round and am puzzled, whilst your eyes never turn from looking out—out of the world—to the lost region—the home from which we have strayed. Sphinx, you and I, strangers to the race of men, are no strangers to one another: have I not been conscious of you and of this place since I was born? Rome is a madman’s dr... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.892 | ["family"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565953 | [
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s to some eternal sentinel below, whose post I never could find. And here at last is their sentinel—an image of the constant and immortal part of my life, silent, full of thoughts, alone in the silver desert. Sphinx, Sphinx: I have climbed mountains at night to hear in the distance the stealthy footfall of the winds th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.841 | 0.842 | ["family"] | 413 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.565991 | [
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visible children, O Sphinx, laughing in whispers. My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God—nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx? THE GIRL ( who has wakened, and peeped cautiously from her nest to see who is speakin... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.807 | 0.724 | ["faith_spirituality", "communication", "family"] | 473 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566030 | [
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gentleman: don’t run away. CAESAR ( stupefied ). “Old gentleman: don’t run away!!!” This! To Julius Caesar! THE GIRL ( urgently ). Old gentleman. CAESAR. Sphinx: you presume on your centuries. I am younger than you, though your voice is but a girl’s voice as yet. THE GIRL. Climb up here, quickly; or the Romans will com... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.647 | 0.72 | ["resume", "war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 471 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566059 | [
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reast! A divine child! THE GIRL. Come up quickly. You must get up at its side and creep round. CAESAR ( amazed ). Who are you? THE GIRL. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. CAESAR. Queen of the Gypsies, you mean. CLEOPATRA. You must not be disrespectful to me, or the Sphinx will let the Romans eat you. Come up. It is quite cosy... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.888 | 0.74 | ["salary", "faith_spirituality"] | 484 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566084 | [
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continents to pay for dreaming it out to the end. ( He climbs to the Sphinx’s flank, and presently reappears to her on the pedestal, stepping round its right shoulder. ) CLEOPATRA. Take care. That’s right. Now sit down: you may have its other paw. ( She seats herself comfortably on its left paw. ) It is very powerful a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.869 | 0.886 | ["salary"] | 487 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566108 | [
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pany. I am glad you have come: I was very lonely. Did you happen to see a white cat anywhere? CAESAR ( sitting slowly down on the right paw in extreme wonderment ). Have you lost one? CLEOPATRA. Yes: the sacred white cat: is it not dreadful? I brought him here to sacrifice him to the Sphinx; but when we got a little wa... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.869 | 0.892 | ["faith_spirituality", "family"] | 488 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566141 | [
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t can have been my great-great-great-grandmother? CAESAR ( staring at her ). Your great-great-great-grandmother! Well, why not? Nothing would surprise me on this night of nights. CLEOPATRA. I think it must have been. My great-grandmother’s great-grandmother was a black kitten of the sacred white cat; and the river Nile... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.736 | ["family", "faith_spirituality"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566187 | [
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gods or not: that is because my blood is made with Nile water. CAESAR. What are you doing here at this time of night? Do you live here? CLEOPATRA. Of course not: I am the Queen; and I shall live in the palace at Alexandria when I have killed my brother, who drove me out of it. When I am old enough I shall do just what ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.867 | 0.794 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 472 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566226 | [
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ou are a funny old gentleman. I like you. CAESAR. Ah, that spoils the dream. Why don’t you dream that I am young? CLEOPATRA. I wish you were; only I think I should be more afraid of you. I like men, especially young men with round strong arms; but I am afraid of them. You are old and rather thin and stringy; but you ha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.869 | 0.65 | [] | 487 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566303 | [
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s you talk to yourself in that silly way. CAESAR. What! you heard that, did you? I was saying my prayers to the great Sphinx. CLEOPATRA. But this isn’t the great Sphinx. CAESAR ( much disappointed, looking up at the statue ). What! CLEOPATRA. This is only a dear little kitten of the Sphinx. Why, the great Sphinx is so ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.889 | 0.74 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 494 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566329 | [
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ws in each; and they live on human flesh. CAESAR. Would you like me to shew you a real Roman? CLEOPATRA ( terrified ). No. You are frightening me. CAESAR. No matter: this is only a dream—— CLEOPATRA ( excitedly ). It is not a dream: it is not a dream. See, see. ( She plucks a pin from her hair and jabs it repeatedly in... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.909 | 0.748 | [] | 494 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566353 | [
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) I only wanted to shew you—— CAESAR ( gently ). Come, come: don’t cry. A queen mustn’t cry. ( He rubs his arm, wondering at the reality of the smart. ) Am I awake? ( He strikes his hand against the Sphinx to test its solidity. It feels so real that he begins to be alarmed, and says perplexedly ) Yes, I—( quite panic-s... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.744 | [] | 501 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566374 | [
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Ah! ( She buries her head in her arms. ) CAESAR. Cleopatra: shall I teach you a way to prevent Caesar from eating you? CLEOPATRA ( clinging to him piteously ). Oh do, do, do. I will steal Ftatateeta’s jewels and give them to you. I will make the river Nile water your lands twice a year. CAESAR. Peace, peace, my child. ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.91 | 0.742 | ["diplomacy", "leadership", "faith_spirituality"] | 502 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566470 | [
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h, you must get a sorcerer to make a woman of me. Are you a sorcerer? CAESAR. Perhaps. But it will take a long time; and this very night you must stand face to face with Caesar in the palace of your fathers. CLEOPATRA. No, no. I daren’t. CAESAR. Whatever dread may be in your soul—however terrible Caesar may be to you—y... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.648 | 0.736 | ["faith_spirituality", "family", "philosophy"] | 482 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566527 | [
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voice quavers; then—night and death! ( She moans. ) But if he thinks you worthy to rule, he will set you on the throne by his side and make you the real ruler of Egypt. CLEOPATRA ( despairingly ). No: he will find me out: he will find me out. CAESAR ( rather mournfully ). He is easily deceived by women. Their eyes dazz... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.885 | 0.632 | [] | 450 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566564 | [
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hardly believe her eyes. FTATATEETA ( hoarsely ). O Queen, forget not thy servant in the days of thy greatness. CLEOPATRA ( blazing with excitement ). Go. Begone. Go away. ( Ftatateeta rises with stooped head, and moves backwards towards the door. Cleopatra watches her submission eagerly, almost clapping her hands, whi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.418 | 0.72 | ["war_conflict"] | 506 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566788 | [
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g ) I am a real Queen at last—a real, real Queen! Cleopatra the Queen! ( Caesar shakes his head dubiously, the advantage of the change seeming open to question from the point of view of the general welfare of Egypt. She turns and looks at him exultantly. Then she jumps down from the step, runs to him, and flings her ar... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.746 | [] | 501 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566833 | [
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all the men I love kings. I will make you a king. I will have many young kings, with round, strong arms; and when I am tired of them I will whip them to death; but you shall always be my king: my nice, kind, wise, good old king. CAESAR. Oh, my wrinkles, my wrinkles! And my child’s heart! You will be the most dangerous ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.867 | 0.738 | [] | 474 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566868 | [
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s, and her crown, and her women; and prepare her. CLEOPATRA ( eagerly—recovering herself a little ). Yes, the crown, Ftatateeta: I shall wear the crown. FTATATEETA. For whom must the Queen put on her state? CAESAR. For a citizen of Rome. A king of kings, Totateeta. CLEOPATRA ( stamping at her ). How dare you ask questi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.911 | 0.746 | [] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.566927 | [
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armed men is heard. Cleopatra’s terror increases. The bucina sounds close at hand, followed by a formidable clangor of trumpets. This is too much for Cleopatra: she utters a cry and darts towards the door. Ftatateeta stops her ruthlessly. FTATATEETA. You are my nursling. You have said “So be it”; and if you die for it,... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.458 | 0.716 | ["war_conflict", "philosophy"] | 476 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.567045 | [
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a little to his right, the only seat in the hall. Taking his place before it, he looks nervously for instructions to Pothinus, who places himself at his left hand. POTHINUS. The King of Egypt has a word to speak. THEODOTUS ( in a squeak which he makes impressive by sheer self-opinionativeness ). Peace for the King’s wo... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.627 | 0.884 | ["diplomacy"] | 503 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.567127 | [
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on of Auletes the Flute Blower who was your King. My sister Berenice drove him from his throne and reigned in his stead but—but ( he hesitates )—— POTHINUS ( stealthily prompting ).—but the gods would not suffer—— PTOLEMY. Yes—the gods would not suffer—not suffer—( he stops; then, crestfallen ) I forget what the gods w... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.646 | 0.852 | ["faith_spirituality", "crisis"] | 459 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.567159 | [
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m the throne of our Egypt. ( A shout of applause. ) Tell the King, Achillas, how many soldiers and horsemen follow the Roman? THEODOTUS. Let the King’s general speak! ACHILLAS. But two Roman legions, O King. Three thousand soldiers and scarce a thousand horsemen. The court breaks into derisive laughter; and a great cha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.726 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.567303 | [
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nd then turns to the King’s chair: Britannus and Rufio posting themselves near the steps at the other side. CAESAR ( looking at Pothinus and Ptolemy ). Which is the King? the man or the boy? POTHINUS. I am Pothinus, the guardian of my lord the King. CAESAR ( patting Ptolemy kindly on the shoulder ). So you are the King... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.744 | [] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.567334 | [
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be kings, Theodotus. That is very clever of you. ( Looking at the gods on the walls as he turns away from Theodotus and goes up again to Pothinus. ) And this place? POTHINUS. The council chamber of the chancellors of the King’s treasury, Caesar. CAESAR. Ah! That reminds me. I want some money. POTHINUS. The King’s treas... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm | Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw | gutenberg.org | 0.827 | 0.724 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 471 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.567422 | [
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set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CLEOPATRA, COMPLETE *** Produced by David Widger CLEOPATRA By Georg Ebers Translated from the German by Mary J. Safford CONTENTS. PREFACE. CLEOPATRA CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX.... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.458 | 0.706 | [] | 504 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607192 | [
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TER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. PREFACE. If the author should be told that the sentimental love of our day was unknown to the pagan world, he would not cite last the two lovers, Antony and Cleopatra, and the will of the powerful Roman general, in which he expressed the desir... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.395 | 0.88 | [] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607303 | [
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eed, are among this greatly misjudged woman’s fairest claims to renown. Unfortunately it proved less potent than the opinion of Dio, who often distorted what Plutarch related, but probably followed most closely the farce or the popular tales which, in Rome, did not venture to show the Egyptian in a favourable light. Th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.336 | 0.852 | [] | 456 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607340 | [
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er more justly than most of the Roman historians. His grandfather had heard many tales of both Cleopatra and Antony from his countryman Philotas, who, during the brilliant days when they revelled in Alexandria, had lived there as a student. Of all the writers who describe the Queen, Plutarch is the most trustworthy, bu... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.848 | 0.862 | ["family"] | 483 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607401 | [
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iven by Plutarch of the last days of our heroine. It bears the impress of truth, and to deviate widely from it would be arbitrary. Unluckily, Egyptian records contain nothing which could have much weight in estimating the character of Cleopatra, though we have likenesses representing the Queen alone, or with her son Cæ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.868 | ["philosophy"] | 506 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607431 | [
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persons except Cleopatra and Antony hand in hand. The upper part of the female figure is in a state of tolerable preservation, and shows a young and attractive face. The male figure was doubtless sacrificed to Octavianus’s command to destroy Antony’s statues. We are indebted to Herr Dr. Walther, in Alexandria, for an e... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.871 | 0.866 | [] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607454 | [
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could render us familiar with our heroine’s appearance, have been preserved. Though the author must especially desire to render his creation a work of art, it is also requisite to strive for fidelity. As the heroine’s portrait must reveal her true character, so the life represented here must correspond in every line wi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.87 | [] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607475 | [
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ad closed his eyes in death shortly after its completion. The sanctuary whence Gorgias commenced his survey was in one of the fairest portions of the Bruchium, the Alexandrian quarter, where stood the royal palace with its extensive annexes, the finest temples—except the Serapeum, situated in another part of the city—a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.627 | 0.698 | [] | 467 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607518 | [
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at the sight of this portion of his native city. He had been in Rome, and visited many other places numbered among the world’s fairest and most populous cities; but not one contained so many superb works of art crowded together in so small a space. “If one of the immortals themselves,” he murmured, “should strive to er... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.356 | 0.882 | [] | 511 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607539 | [
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tisfy the artistic needs which we possess as their gift, and it would surely be placed on the shore of such a sea.” While speaking, he shaded his keen eyes with his hand. The architect, who usually devoted his whole attention to the single object that claimed his notice, now permitted himself the pleasure of enjoying t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.88 | ["communication", "philosophy"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607565 | [
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ay again; a gay voice from below called his name. A singular procession had approached the temple—a small body of armed men, led by a short, stout fellow, whose big head, covered with bushy curls, was crowned with a laurel wreath. He was talking eagerly to a younger man, but had paused with the others in front of the s... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.62 | 0.884 | [] | 511 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607585 | [
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patra had gained a great victory on sea and land. In the eating-house at Kanopus, where he had breakfasted, everyone was full of the joyful news, and rivers of wine had been drunk to the health of the victors and the destruction of the malicious foe. “In these days,” cried Dion, “not only weak-brained fellows, like the... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.751 | 0.882 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607609 | [
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, who is on the brink of despair because he himself knows nothing, not even the veriest trifle.” “Yet he stands nearest to the Regent,” observed Gorgias, “and must learn, if any one does, how the fleet fares.” “You too!” sighed his friend. “Had I been standing so far above the ground as you, the architect—by the dog, I... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.628 | 0.874 | [] | 476 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607631 | [
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and keeps back the galleys coming from the north. The Regent knows nothing, absolutely nothing, and my uncle, of course, no more. But if they do learn anything they will be shrewd enough not to enrich me with it.” “True, there are other rumours afloat,” said the architect thoughtfully. “If I were in Mardion’s place——” ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.843 | 0.85 | [] | 426 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607666 | [
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nion. “He has as many cares as a fish has scales. And one, the greatest.—That pert young Antyllus was over-ready with his tongue yesterday at Barine’s. Poor fellow! He’ll have to answer for it to his tutor at home.” “You mean the remark about the Queen’s accompanying the fleet?” “St!” said Dion, putting his finger on h... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.627 | 0.714 | ["family"] | 474 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607690 | [
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incided with the opinion of all the wisest heads. The reckless youth enthusiastically reverenced his father, but Cleopatra, the object of Antony’s love, and—in the Egyptians’ eyes—his wife, was not Antyllus’s mother. He was the son of Fulvia, his father’s first wife, and feeling himself a Roman, would have preferred a ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.539 | 0.866 | ["family", "war_conflict"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607715 | [
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d already spread abroad, and their first questions revealed that this was the case. It was even stated that the old sage’s house was to be torn down, and within a few hours. This was vehemently contradicted; but a tall, scrawny man seemed to have undertaken to defend the ruler’s violence. The friends knew him well. It ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.587 | 0.864 | [] | 471 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607736 | [
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ver tongue at the disposal of the highest bidder. “The rascal is probably now in my uncle’s employ,” said Dion. “The idea of putting the piece of sculpture there originated with him, and it is difficult to turn him from such plans. There is some secret object to be gained here. That is why they have brought Philostratu... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.57 | 0.872 | ["crisis", "family"] | 500 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607761 | [
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f.” “Cast her off!” exclaimed Gorgias wrathfully. “How that sounds! True, he did it, but to persuade him the poor woman sacrificed half the fortune her father had earned by his brush. You know as well as I that life with that scoundrel would be unbearable.” “Very true,” replied Dion quietly. “But as all Alexandria melt... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.395 | 0.724 | ["family"] | 512 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607786 | [
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pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?” “That the light she sheds may not dazzle your eyes. I know how sensitive they are.” “Then spare, instead of irritating them. Besides, your suggestion gives food for thought Barine is the ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.825 | 0.85 | [] | 449 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607806 | [
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be glad to injure both. But I’ll spoil his game. It is my business to choose the site for the statues.” “Yours?” replied Dion. “Unless some one who is more powerful opposes you. I would try to win my uncle, but there are others superior to him. The Queen has gone, it is true; but Iras, whose commands do not die away in... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.74 | [] | 506 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607826 | [
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the architect. “I?” asked the other in amazement. “Ay, you,” asserted Gorgias. “Did not you say that Iras, with whom you played when a boy is now becoming troublesome by watching your every step? And then—you visit Barine constantly and she so evidently prefers you, that the fact might easily reach the ears of Iras.” “... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.629 | 0.87 | ["war_conflict"] | 492 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607849 | [
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hours when the day is drawing towards its close. No matter; Iras, I suppose, heard that I was favoured by this much-admired woman. Iras herself has some little regard for me, so she bought Philostratus. She is willing to pay something for the sake of injuring the woman who stands between us, or the old man who has the ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.829 | 0.884 | ["salary", "war_conflict", "family"] | 491 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607873 | [
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ruin Barine, she need not make so long a circuit. Besides, she is not really a wicked woman. Or is she? All I know is that where any advantage is to be gained for the Queen, she does not shrink even from doubtful means, and also that the hours speed swiftly for any one in her society. Yes, Iras, Iras—I like to utter th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.842 | 0.864 | [] | 422 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607901 | [
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self, and—a thing few can say—another still more. What is the world, what am I to her, compared with the Queen, the idol of her heart? Since Cleopatra’s departure, Iras seems like the forsaken Ariadne, or a young roe which has strayed from its mother. But stop; she may have a hand in the game: the Queen trusted her as ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5482/5482-h/5482-h.htm | Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers - Project Gutenberg | gutenberg.org | 0.698 | 0.874 | ["family"] | 478 | Cleopatra | personality | 2026-02-28T03:43:40.607942 | [
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