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Under her heart she had felt a movement of a new and mysterious life!

Heaven itself seemed to contradict her words! Elizabeth felt that she

was a mother, and Eleonore's words now filled her with awe and terror!

Fainting, she sank into Razunificent court festival was celebrated

at the ih that

Elizabeth had chosen a successor in the person of Peter, Duke of

Holstein, she ht be fortified and assured by a nueny

She chose for hi and beautiful

Sophia Augusta, who, eion, received the nae festival of this young German princess with the heir

to the Russian throne which was celebrated in the i--a festival of splendor and enthusias beauty, Elizabeth the present and

Catharine the future eeous with the splendor of

the present, the other irradiated with the glory of the future People

looked at the fair youthful face of Catharine, and sought to read in her

ht cherish of her! It

was, therefore, a festival of the present and future that was there and

then celebrated, and the nates humbly prostrated themselves before

this new star, and threw themselves upon the earth before the ever-new

sun of imperial majesty which shone upon them in the person of

Elizabeth