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The people were running to and fro in the wildest confusion in the

streets of St Petersburg; they cried and shouted vivas to their

empress who to-day accorded to the of soracious and condescending ehtful

spectacle for her serfs at the expense of the nobility! That was an

e and shouting they rushed to the place of execution, pressing

against the barriers that separated the central point from the

spectators There stood the bearded assistants of the executioner, there

lay the knouts and other instrulances the people

devoured all: they found all these preparations adht in the prospect of seeing the handsomest woman

in the realm flayed with the knout And not the coreat nates of the court

a suspicion that they

commiserated the condemned and revolted at their punishnates, perhaps with tears in their hearts, but

with s secret curses, but aloud

applauding the just sentence of the ees of the conde train; the train halted, the doors were opened, and

in the centre of the place of execution appeared Eleonore Lapuschkin,

radiant with the brilliancy of the purest beauty, her noble for robe, which lent to her loveliness an

additional charlance, as if awaking fro, amiable, the

first and most celebrated lady of the court, of which she was the most