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The Sisters
Complete

CHAPTER VII
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Stay! do you see a black shadow out there by the vineyard at Kakem; That is very likely he; but no--you are right, it is only some birds, flying in a close mass above the road.

Can you see nothing more?
No!--and yet we both have sharp young eyes.

I am very curious to know whether Publius Scipio will like Euergetes.

There can hardly be two beings more unlike, and yet they have some very essential points in common." "They are both men," interrupted Zoe, looking at the queen as if she expected cordial assent to this proposition.
"So they are," said Cleopatra proudly.

"My brother is still so young that, if he were not a king's son, he would hardly have outgrown the stage of boyhood, and would be a lad among other Epheboi,--[Youths above 18 were so called]--and yet among the oldest there is hardly a man who is his superior in strength of will and determined energy.


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