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In the end, the boats were beaten off, all excepting one that one kept still hovering near, and the commander of it, who stood upon the deck, poising his spear with an aim at Antony, and seeking eagerly an opportunity to throw it, seemed by his attitude and the expression of his countenance to be animated by some peculiarly bitter feeling of hostility and hate.Then, calvin and hobbs snowman comics moreover, such a woman as Cleopatra was not to be considered, as many women would be, an embarrassment and a source of care to a military expedition which she might join, but a very efficient counselor and aid to it.The ablest counselors and chief officers in the army urged Antony very strongly not to trust himself to the sea.Notwithstanding this reward, however, the calvin and hobbs snowman comics man deserted Antony that very night, and went over to the enemy.Cleopatra was, however, determined not to go away.Canidius, having received Cleopatra's money, while yet he pretended to be wholly disinterested in his advice, represented to Antony that it would not be reasonable to send Cleopatra away, and deprive her calvin and hobbs snowman comics of all participation in the glory of the war, when she was defraying so large a part of the expense of it.THE END OF CLEOPATRA.He made Alexandria his capital, celebrated triumphs there, arranged ostentatious expeditions into Asia and Syria with Cleopatra and her train, gave her whole provinces as presents, and exalted her two sons, Alexander and Ptolemy, children born during the period of his first acquaintance with her, to positions calvin and hobbs snowman comics of the highest rank and station, as his own acknowledged sons.She distributed vast sums of money among the people.He praised, too, in the highest terms, the valor of one of the officers who had gone out with him to the fight, and whom he had now brought to calvin and hobbs snowman comics the palace to present to Cleopatra.In the mean time, while all these events had been transpiring in the East, Octavius had been making his preparations for the coming crisis, and was now advancing with a powerful fleet across the sea.Octavius was gradually advancing in his progress, and they knew very well that the time of his dreadful reckoning with them must soon come nor was there any place on earth in which they could look with any hope of finding a refuge in it from calvin and hobbs snowman comics his vindictive hostility.Cleopatra in a rage.If it were possible for me to live without you, how calvin and hobbs snowman comics easy it would be for me to devise ways and means to kill you.