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But suddenly so like a panic-terror, like an unnatural awe, flew

through all these splendid halls; the smiles were arrested on all faces,

the harmless jests on all lips; the pallor of beautiful woered to and fro as if a

thunderbolt had fallen As if touched by a ic wand, every one stood

to speak to his

neighbor or n to a friend They would not see, they would not

hear, they only wished to see

As we said, a panic-terror pervaded the halls, and like an

evil-announcing night-spectre passed over the heads of the stiffened,

lifeless crowd the disent and the princess are at

variance; the regent is speaking to her with vehemence, and the princess

weeps!"

This certainly was a terrible announcery,

it ues andthem she could counteract and nullify them;

consequently the plans of the princess were upset, Anna Leopoldowna

would remain ruler, and her son Ivan the Czar of all the Russias

Now the touch, the vicinity of Elizabeth's friends beca terror; they anxiously avoided

the vicinity of Lestocq, they crowded back froht with every de at the French aent

knew all, she must know of the intimate relations of Lestocq with the

Marquis de la Chetardie, and he was therefore doomed like the other