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She therefore tore herself for some short hours from the pleasures in

which she was usually immersed, from the arms of her lover, the

object of her deepest interest; her own safety and her own peace were

concerned That orth the effort to take the pen oncename of Elizabeth to soned the co back Anna Leopoldowna and

her husband froa to the interior of Russia, and

place thened another order, and that was to rend the young Ivan from

the ar, and

there to hold hiroithout teachers,

or any kind of instruction, and without the least occupation or

aned the document--"I

well know that it would be better for this Ivan to be executed for

high-treason than to ree

for it It is so horrible to kill a poor, innocent child!"

"And in this e attain our end more safely," said Lestocq, with a

smile "Your majesty has sworn to take the life of no one; very well,

you keep your word as to physical life--we do not destroy the body but

the spirit of this boy Ivan! We raise hi hined the order, and her command was executed They took

from Anna Leopoldowna her last joy, her only consolation--they took away

her son, whose shted her prison as with sunbeams,