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"Unhappy"You

are guilty of high-treason Fall upon your knees and implore pardon of

your empress, Elizabeth!"

The officer shrank bank in terror It was an empress who stood before

hiiveness and mercy, he dropped his sword and fell upon his

knees The Russian slave akened in him, and he bent before the one

who had the power to command

Unobstructed, retained by no one, Elizabeth and her followers now strode

through the corridor leading to the private apartent

Sentinels were placed at every door, with strict commands to strike down

any one who should dare to oppose theent's chao any farther She hesitatingly

stopped A deep shaht of

the noble confidence Anna had shown, and which she was now on the point

of repaying with the blackest treason

Lestocq, whose sharp, observing glances constantly rested upon her,

divined her thoughts and the cause of her irresolution He privately

whispered sorenadiers,

i-roole push the door was forced, and with a wild cry the soldiers