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a less medical point of view? France is your enemy, France meditates

your destruction, and the Marquis de la Chetardie is exciting the

princess and Lestocq to an insurrection"

"And to what end, if I may be allowed to ask?" scornfully inquired Anna

"France, struggling with internal and foreign enemies, at ith

Austria, involved in disputes with Holland and Spain, France would wish

at any price to see the Russian government so occupied with her own

domestic difficulties as to have no time to devote to international

affairs She would provide you with plenty of occupation at home, that

you may not actively interfere with the affairs of the rest of the

world That is the shrewd policy of France, and it would fill ht with the er to us The

Marquis de la Chetardie has it in charge to bring about a revolution

here at any price, and as an expert diplomatist, he very well

comprehends that Princess Elizabeth is the best hter of Czar Peter, has the sympathies

of the old Russians in her favor, and they will flock to her with shouts

of joy whenever she may announce to the people that she is ready to

drive the foreign rulers from Russia!"