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Cleopatra
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CHAPTER XII
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You seem to set a high value upon them.
Doubtless there may be one or another which you could appropriate only by the aid of the imagination.

May I ask which seems to you the most desirable ?" "Spare me the choice, I beseech you," replied Barine in an embarrassed tone.

"I need nothing from your treasures, and, as for the other possessions I lack many things; but it is uncertain how the noblest and highest gifts in the possession of the marvellously endowed favourite of the gods would suit the small, commonplace ones I call mine, and I know not--" "A sensible doubt!" interrupted the Queen.

"The lame man, who desired a horse, obtained one, and on his first ride broke his neck.

The only blessing--the highest of all--which surely bestows happiness can neither be given away nor transferred from one to another.


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