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but conte her

than teaching her to march in military fashion, and stand as a sentinel

at his door!

Wounded in her in and her fes hich Elizabeth tormented her, Catharine retreated

into her most retired apartreatness, and yearningly to dream of a splendid future

"For the future," said she, with sparkling eyes to her confidante,

Princess Daschkow, "the future is mine, they cannot deprive me of it

For that I labor and think and study Ah, when my future shall have

become the present, then will I encircle my broith a splendid

ireatness and

ly interposed Princess Daschkow

"He will a little obscure the splendor of your imperial crown, as he

will always be the first in the realm He is the all-powerful eh an empress!"

Catharine proudly tossed her head, and her eyes flashed

"I shall one day remember all the mortifications he has inflicted upon

me," said she, "and an hour will co with

him, and full retribution! Ah, talk not to me of my husband--Russian

emperors have never been immortal, and why should he be so?"