One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances

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Theophile Gautier. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances

One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances

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TO THE READER

ONE OF CLEOPATRA'S NIGHTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CLARIMONDE[1]

ARRIA MARCELLA

A SOUVENIR OF POMPEII

THE MUMMY'S FOOT

OMPHALE: A ROCOCO STORY

KING CANDAULES

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

ADDENDA

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Théophile Gautier

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It is not a very easy thing to find out precisely what a young man from the land of Kemi, who followed the barge of Cleopatra, queen and goddess Evergetes, on her return from the Mammisi of Hermonthis two thousand years ago, was then thinking of. But we shall make the effort notwithstanding.

Meïamoun, son of Mandouschopsh, was a youth of strange character; nothing by which ordinary minds are affected made any impression upon him. He seemed to belong to some loftier race, and might well have been regarded as the offspring of some divine adultery. His glance had the steady brilliancy of a falcon's gaze, and a serene majesty sat on his brow as upon a pedestal of marble; a noble pride curled his upper lip, and expanded his nostrils like those of a fiery horse. Although owning a grace of form almost maidenly in its delicacy, and though the bosom of the fair and effeminate god Dionysos was not more softly rounded or smoother than his, yet beneath this soft exterior were hidden sinews of steel and the strength of Hercules—a strange privilege of certain antique natures to unite in themselves the beauty of woman with the strength of man.

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