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Anna reclined her head upon her friend's shoulder

"God is just and good," said she "He punishes me for my criminal love,

and mercifully spares the object of s Julia, should you one day be liberated and allowed to see

his; then tell hih shall be a prayer for

his happiness I shall never see hi,

Julia!"

Julia dissolved in tears, and, clinging to her friend, she sobbed: "No,

no, they will not dare to kill you"

"Then they will conde imprisonment," calmly

responded Anna

"No, no, your head is sacred, and so is your freedo is sacred in Russia," laconically responded Anna

The sledges stopped at the palace of the Princess Elizabeth Hardly two

hours had passed since Elizabeth, in those sa princess; and now, as reigning eent

The latter entered the palace of the princess as a prisoner, while

Elizabeth, as empress, took possession of the palace of the czars