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Before the back door of the palace Elizabeth had occupied as princess, a

travelling-sledge aiting Gayly sounded and clattered the bells on

the six sayly did the postilions

blow their horns, and with enticing calls resounded the thundering

fanfares through the cold winter air

To those for whoreeting from heaven It was to the to theer of

peace, which gave them back their freedom, their lives, and perhaps

even happiness They were to return to Gerh the Russian snow-fields, they would soon reach a

softer climate, where they would be surrounded by milder manners and

customs What was it to Anna that she was to be deprived of earthly

elevation and pohat cared she that she henceforth would noothers? She was free, free fro barbarians; free froreatness, and, finally free to live in conformity with her own

inclinations, and perhaps, ah, perhaps, to found a happiness, the bare

drea of which already caused her heart to treain the fanfares resounded without Anna, weeping, tore

herself from the ar Julia von Mengden with her Elizabeth had refused it, and, in

this refusal, she had pronounced the sentence of the favorite--this was

understood by both Julia and Anna