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There all was still Before the door opening upon the corridor she heard

the regular step of the soldier on guard The waiters upon the e upon mattresses around hiht steps Anna approached the cradle of her son, and, bending

down over hilances, while his

still and peaceful slumber seemed to touch her heart with a sweet

emotion

"Sleep,little emperor," she

els as

beautiful as yourself!"

Bending again over the cradle, she breathed a light kiss upon the rosy

lips of her child, and then noiselessly returned to her own cha breath, "noill I, also, sleep and

dreaht, Lynar!"

With a happy smile she reclined upon her couch, and soon slumbered

At this moment the clock in the next chamber struck the twelfth hour

Slowly and sole clocks that

announced the ht

At this same hour a lively movehts were seen glancing frooing in the roo

there announced an activity unusual for the hour, and certainly it was a

signal good fortune for Elizabeth that Anna had forbidden her husband's