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Eleonore's words had brought reflection to Elizabeth She cohter would certainly be threatened with great

dangers after her death; she had shudderingly thought of poor Ivan in

Schlusselburg, and she said to herself: "As I have held hihter, one day, when I aht to hter of Peter the Great--the blood of the

great Russian czar flows in her veins, and therefore Peter will fear

Natalie as I feared Ivan; therefore will he imprison and torment her as

I have imprisoned and tormented Ivan!"

By this affectionate anxiety was Elizabeth induced to hter, which was imparted to but a few

confidential friends

The little Natalie was raised in a solitary country-house not far from

the city, and her few servants and people were forbidden under pain

of death to ader into this constantly-closed and

alatched house No one was to enter it without a written order of

the eiven

Elizabeth, then, as it were to reco the letter to the King of France, resolved to visit her daughter

to-day with her husband

"Rasczinsky may precede and announce us," said she "We will take our

dinner there, and heto

Peterhoff Then no one will be surprised that we , or, rather, they will know nothing of it Call