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What a woman Zara was at that hteous retribution; the personification of the cause
she so splendidly advocated I looked upon her al that I was thrilled almost into active acquiescence
to her demands She continued: "There are not words to describe the emotions that sweep over you, as
you listen to the servant's story You becoh to the end, and there is notcharacter were found
a your sister's effects; that a letter was there, which told that
she was engaged in a conspiracy to assassinate the czar, by poison;
that she, being a welcoreed to
put poison in the wine that he should drink on the following day--a
deadly poison--cyanide of potassium; that the poison itself was found
with the letter--a har powder, but a deadly one You are
told that Yvonne was dragged away by those men, and taken--ah, the
servant could not tell you where they took her; but he could tell you
how she sobbed, and e of the things they had found, crying out for you, in her
agony; and how one of the men struck her a brutal blow in the face,
because she would not be quiet That is all the servant could tell you