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.

While we are talking here, he is inviting Barine to his estate.

The country air will benefit her." "May she bloom there like a young shepherdess!" "You are right to wish her the best fortune; for if the Queen does not return victorious, the irritability of our Alexandrians will be doubled.
When you laid hands on Didymus's garden, you were so busily engaged in building the triumphal arch that you forgot--" "Who would have doubted the successful issue of this war ?" cried Iras.
"And they will, they will conquer.