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"Work! You ork, princess?" whispered Marianne

"I will learn it!" said she, and with a constantly quickened step they

approached the outlet of the garden

The gate which led out into the street ide open; soldiers in

Russian unifor back with their

carbines the curious Rolad of

an opportunity to get a peep into the so-long-closed chararden fairy!" cried they all, as Natalie

neared the gate

"How beautiful she is, how beautiful!" they loudly exclaimed

"That is a real fairy, a divinity!"

Natalie heard none of these expressions of adht She wished to leave the garden; she wished to go

forth; she had no regrets, no coet out of it, even if it was to go to her death

But the soldiers stationed at the gate opposed her progress

Natalie regarded them with terror and anation of my property,"

said she "Aith thesemaiden boldly advanced a step But those weapons stretched

before her like a wall, and Natalie was now overco of her total abandonment, of her