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They held each other in a last embrace Anna wept hot tears, but Julia

remained calm, and even smiled

"They may send me to Siberia, if they please, my heart will remain warreat happiness of

knowing that you and yours are saved they cannot rend froainst all misfortunes!"

"But I," sadly responded Anna--"shall I not always be tortured by the

reflection that it is I who have been the cause of your misfortunes? Are

you not condemned because you loved and were true to me? Ah, does love,

then, deserve so hard a punishment?"

"The punishment passes, but love remains," calmly responded Julia "That

will always be hed Anna

"You will not need it," said Julia, with a sain, and her cheek paled A dark and terrible ily whispered: "Ah, would that ere once beyond the Russian boundary, for then,

first, shall we be free"

"Then let us hasten our journey," said Prince Ulrich; "once in the

sledge, and every s us nearer to freedo us, Anna--they call us to Germany! Come,

take your son, wrap him close in your furred mantle, and let us hasten

away--away from here!" The prince laid little Ivan in the arms of his

wife, and drew her aith him

"Farewell, farewell, e