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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