The Archive · 1927

LI, The Siren of the Nile Has a Birthday

Hage cannot wither nor custom stale her infinite variety."

"Nonsense," said Cleopatra, to They were wandering off along a Antony who had just remarked that lower terrace, where the graceful, 22 seemed a nice age for a girl. fan-like tamarisk trees were waving "Stuft and. nonsense, 35 is a|when Cleopatra pointed them out woman's best age. I wouldn't go Back to the 20's as a free gift." she said, indicating They were i is preferrable as an half light on age to 25." flat terrace which overlooked the "It strikes me," said Antony, who desert, Seen in that light the de- was sitting at her fect like a small sert vas enchanting, to which the boy in a toga, and not particularly mellow ring in. Cleopatra's voice like the Bark Antony of the Foram was in part attributable. She hadland the Marvian camps, "that gone to her palace on the edge of Cythemena desires heartily to be 25) he desert to celebrate her birthday, again from the looks of her Though the fact was not generally masquerade." known. A bevy of handmaidens Cleopatra did not answer, seem-accompanied her and Antony had, ingly lost in reverie. And 'Antony' run down for the week-end. There! amused himself with tracing the Were also an inoffensive old couple,!outline of the tesserae which form fa petty prince from Alexandria and\ed the floor of the high terrace on his wile, the latter of whom admire which they sat, He wondered, with ed Cleopatra tremendously and hoped, perversity which annoyed him at eventually to profit from some of times, but which, nevertheless, he inthe queers much talked of beauty variably yielded to, whether the secrets. These two gave an air of tessellsted pavcrsent had been laid conventionality to the week-end. following: Cleopatra's. return from

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