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Pierre was so handsome, that by some of his friends it was supposed, perhaps, too, hoped, that he would supersede Orloff in the favor of Catherine. But more honourable illusions, though they were but illusions, occupied his own mind. He neither sought nor wished to captivate the Empress.
In the succession of her "lovers" only Patiomkin, and for a moment Gregory Orloff, acquired a position of the first political importance; and Patiomkin's was maintained long after his first relation had come to an end.
At the same moment Domanski was overpowered before he had time to use his sword, and made a prisoner. The Princess's cries for Orloff, her husband and saviour, are met with derision. Orloff she is told is himself a prisoner. He has, in fact, vanished, his dastardly mission executed; and she never saw him again.
Then there was Mazzetti, the Roman. He parted his hair on the wrong side, and under the black wing of it was a deep groove into which you could lay a forefinger. A piece of shell had plowed it neatly. The Russian boy who called himself Orloff had the look in his eyes of one who has seen things upon which eyes never should have looked. He smoked constantly and ate, apparently, not at all.
The Turks lost several battles on the Pruth, Dniester, and Danube; the provinces of Wallachia, and Moldavia, and Bessarabia submitted to the Russian arms; while a great naval victory, in the Mediterranean, was gained by Alexis Orloff, whose share in the late revolution had raised him from the rank of a simple soldier to that of a general of the empire, and a favorite of the empress.
This gives me pleasure, and wherefore is the world here but to be enjoyed?" "A little also for labor," said Stephano, with a sly smile. "For that I have my slaves, for that I have also you!" responded Orloff, laughing.
Several persons left their cards, among which we noticed those of Count Orloff, Lieutenant-General Doubett, Chief of the Secret Police, the Chevalier Russi di Castilevala. In the course of the day we went to the office of the Secret Police; they were very civil. We were given to understand that it was customary for visitors to St Petersburg to pay a visit to that office.
"Then if grub gives out they'll be comin' back here?" suggested Potts. "Small doubt of it," agreed the priest. "And when I heard there were parties of the same sort stranded at intervals all along the Lower River " "You sure?" He nodded. "And when Father Orloff of the Russian mission told us that he was already having trouble with the two big rival parties frozen in the ice below Ikogimeut "
"No," said she, with a glad smile "no, all the happiness I ever expect, all the good that may hereafter come to me, I shall receive only from the hands of Alexis Orloff!" "Poor child!" sighed the cardinal. "In many a case even death may prove a blessing!" "Then will I also joyfully receive even that from his hands!" cried the young maiden, with enthusiasm.
"That," said Count Orloff, with a smile, "I should not have dared to do; it would have been high-treason!" "Was she, then, so great a sublime a princess?" asked Natalie. "She was an empress!" "An empress!" And the young maiden, sprang up with beaming eyes and glowing cheeks. "My mother was an empress!" said she, breathing hard. "Empress Elizabeth of Russia."
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