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"Ah," said Ivan, "how beautiful you are no flash your eyes, and
how radiantly glow your cheeks! Would that ht see in you the heroine, Natalie, and not the
sorrow-stricken wo of the bolts, the
roll of the dru!"
"Farewell, Natalie--farewell, forever!"
And,kiss, but wept not
"Hear me, Natalie! when they bind me upon the wheel, weep not Be
resolute, my wife, and pray that their torments may not render me weak,
and that no cry may escape my lips!"
"I will pray, Ivan"
In half an hour all was over The noble and virtuous Count Ivan
Dolgorucki had been broken upon the wheel, and three of his brothers
beheaded, and for what?--Because Count Munnich, fearing that the noble
and respected brothers Dolgorucki ht dispossess him of his usurped
power, had persuaded the Czarina Anna that they were plotting her
overthrow for the purpose of raising Katharina Ivanovna to the imperial
throne No proof or conviction was required; Munnich had said it, and
that sufficed; the Dolgoruckis were annihilated!
But Natalie Dolgorucki still lived, and from the bloody scene of her
husband's execution she repaired to Kiew There would she live in the
cloister of the Penitents, preserving the eance of Heaven upon his ht when Natalie reached the