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"Bah! for the present she is in love," exclaih,

"and wo but their love But only

look, your highness, did I not prophesy correctly? Only see the nu before your door! The street will soon be too

narrow to contain them"

And in the street beloas really to be seen the rapid arrival of

a great nuhted

beautiful and richly-dressed women, whose male companions were covered

with orders, and ere all hastening into the palace There was a

pressing and pushing which produced the greatest possible confusion

Every one wished to be the first to congratulate the new ruler, and to

assure him of their unbounded devotion

The duke's halls were soon filled with Russian th the duke hi the faces, and encountered only glances of love and

admiration The warmest wishes of all these hundreds seemed to have

been fulfilled, and Biron was precisely thein the centre of these halls, they read to Biron the

testanated Ivan,

the son of the Duchess Anna Leopoldowna and Prince Ulrich of Brunswick,

as eent of the

e the e of seven nates was indescribable; they