I did not understand what he said, and only pointed southward and in spirit wished him victory and that this separation might tend to the welfare of our love.

But he shook his head, pressed his hand despairingly to his brow, and waved his arms as though to give me a sign, but the Antonias swept far ahead of his ship and steered straight towards the south.
"I breathed more freely, in the pleasant consciousness of escaping a two-fold danger.

Had I remained long before Antony's eyes, looking as I did then, it might-- "Wretched blunder of a wretched woman, I say now.

But at that time I could not suspect what a terrible doom I had brought down in that hour upon ourselves, my children, perhaps the whole world; so I remained under the thrall of these petty fears and thoughts until wounded men were carried past me.

The sight distressed me; you know how sensitive I am, and with what difficulty I endure and witness suffering.
"Charmian led me to the cabin.