A NOCTURNE OF THE NILE.
' Ah ’. my Tony, you will always love me, won’t you. dearest ?’ Notwithstanding the fact that Cleopatra's taper fingers were held fast in his strong right hand, and her brickbronze hair floated around him like a golden dream, a shadow of annoyance passed over Antony’s face. ‘ Yes,’ he said at length, ‘ I shall always love you. unless ’ She gazed up at him with a strange fear in her eyes. • you become a victim of that hateful biking habit.’ Reassured by her expressed belief that she was not built that way, he clasped her tightly in his arms, and through the long, dusky twilight they sat in happy silence, drinking in the lotus-laden breeze from the sleepy Nile.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 368
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121A NOCTURNE OF THE NILE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 368
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