Now I know that it was not merely my old deceitful foe, jealousy, which warned me against her.

Alexas, the most faithful of his friends, also confirmed what I merely feared--ah! and he told me other things which the stars had revealed to him.

Besides, he knows the siren, for she was the wife of his own brother.

To protect his honour, he cast off the coquettish Circe." "Barine!" fell in resolute tones from the lips of Iras.
"So you know her ?" asked Cleopatra, eagerly.

The girl raised her clasped hands beseechingly to the Queen, exclaiming: "I know this woman only too well, and how my heart rages against her! O my mistress, that I, too, should aid in darkening this hour! Yet it must be said.