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Cleopatra
Complete

CHAPTER VI
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It came from the lips of Cornelia, the murdered man's wife.

Shouts of applause from the King's camp followed, then the blast of a trumpet; the Egyptians drew back from the shore.

The scarlet cloak again appeared.

Septimius, bearing in his hand a bleeding head, went towards it and held the ghastly trophy aloft.
"The royal boy gazed into the dull eyes of the victim, who had guided the destinies of many a battlefield, of Rome, of two quarters of the globe.

The sight was probably too terrible for the child upon the throne, for he averted his head.


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