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"Punish theent, her

husband, and her son--them you will permit to return to Germany!"

"We must accoo!"

"We will obey her commands," said Lestocq to Alexis Razuerous to let them ever reach

Gerhts and their

claient and this

young growing emperor, whose claims to the imperial Russian crown are

incontestable You alone, Razuer fro her of its reality, and inducing her

to change her mind Reflect that the safety of the empress is our own;

reflect that, as we have risen with her, so shall we fall with her!"

"Rely upon ent and

her young Emperor Ivan shall never pass the Russian boundary! Let theuard with them, and travel by slow marches,

that our couriers may be able to overtake them at a later period That

is all you have to do in the case"

And, hu, Alexis repaired to the apartments of

the empress