I ought to have spared you this pitiable spectacle, child.

But I am again ready for the battle.

Cleopatra's account of Antony's condition renders a piece of news which we have just received somewhat more intelligible." "We ?" replied Iras.

"Who was your companion ?" "Dion," answered Archibius; but when he was about to describe the incidents of the preceding night, she interrupted him with the question whether Barine had consented to leave the city.

He assented with a curt "Yes," but Iras assumed the manner of having expected nothing different, and requested him to continue his story.
Archibius now related everything which they had experienced, and their discovery in the pirate ship.