Cleopatra, from the depth of an unequalled experience, retorts,--

"Thou speakest like a fool: the way to lose him!"

And what "the serpent of old Nile" said, the wives of the future, who are

to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, may well ponder. It takes two

things different to make a union; and part of that difference may as well

lie in matters political as anywhere else.

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