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The princess looked up with a dreamy smile "Do I love him!" she then

ly s to him Thou knowest that of all the world I have never

loved any other man than him alone! And you, Julia, you who know every

emotion and palpitation of my heart, you yet ask me if I love him--when

he stood before lance, his heart-winning smile? Ah, my whole heart already then flew to

ht only of hihts, and my prayers, I loved only when I saw hiotten day when he confessed his love,

when he lay at my feet and swore eternal truth to me--ah, why could I

not have died on that day? I was then so happy!"

"Poor Princess Anna," said Julia, syed

you that happiness!"

"Yes," continued Anna with a bitter smile, "yes, the virtuous Empress

Anna blushed in the arms of her lover, Biron, at this aberration of

her sold and coupled niece She found it very revolting that the poor

sixteen-year-old Anna Leopoldowna dared to have a heart of her own and

to feel a real love They must therefore rob her of the only happiness

Heaven had vouchsafed her Consequently, they wrote to Warsaw, asking,

nay, co the recall of the ambassador, and Lynar was compelled to