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"Shall I, then, send away Count Ostermann?" sulkily asked Julia

"That Isee you with a

dissatisfied face? No, let hiet not that I subrateful sent's hand, and then hastened

to bear to Count Ostermann the favorable answer

In a fewhient's cabinet

Anna Leopoldowna received hi in a band-box filled with various articles of dress and

eht to her

"Well," said she, raising her eyes for a lance at Ostermann,

"you come at a very inconvenient hour, Herr Minister Count Ostermann

You see that I a to

find a suitable head-dress Will you aid me in the choice, sir count?"

Osterroans,

sustained hilided down into a chair, and staring at Anna with his piercing and

wonderfully-flashing eyes, he said: "You highness would select a head-dress? Well, as you ask ive it; choose a head-dress so firm and solid as to

prove a fortification for the defence of your head Choose a head-dress

that will protect you against conspiracies and revolutions, against

false friends and s enemies! Choose a head-dress that will keep

your head upon your shoulders!"

"Count Oster, and at the sa a wreath of artificial roses "Or no, it was not Count