Famous Affinities of History
Famous Affinities of History
The Romance of Devotion
The Story of Antony and Cleopatra Abelard and Heloise Queen Elizabeth and The Earl of Leicester Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Bothwell Queen Christina of Sweden and The Marquis Monaldeschi King Charles II. and Nell Gwyn Maurice of Saxony and Adrienne Lecouvreur The Story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
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were gathered there, leaving Antony to sit alone in the tribunal where he was dispensing justice.
Word was brought to him that Venus had come to feast with Bacchus. Antony, though still suspicious of Cleopatra, sent her an invitation to dine with him in state. With graceful tact she sent him a counter-invitation, and he came. The magnificence of his reception dazzled the man who had so long known only a soldier's fare, or at most the crude entertainments which he had enjoyed in Rome. A marvelous display of lights was made. Thousands upon thousands of candles shone brilliantly, arranged in squares and circles; while the banquet itself was one that symbolized the studied luxury of the East.
At this time Cleopatra was twenty-seven years of age--a period of life which modern physiologists have called the crisis in a woman's growth. She had never really loved before, since she had given herself to Caesar, not because she cared for him, but to save her kingdom. She now came into the presence of one w
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