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Cleopatra

CHAPTER II
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_La! la!_ how my tongue does run, and it's getting dark.

Come, aren't you going to take away the body of that poor lad, and the lion, too?
There, my boy, you keep those herbs on, and you'll never feel your scratches.

I know a thing or two for all I'm crazy, and you, my own grandson! Dear, dear, I'm glad his Holiness the High Priest adopted you when Pharaoh--Osiris bless his holy name--made an end of his son; you look so bonny.

I warrant the real Harmachis could not have killed a lion like that.

Give me the common blood, I say--it's so lusty." [*] The soul when it has been absorbed in the Godhead .-- Editor.
"You know too much and talk too fast," grumbled the spy, now quite deceived.


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