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Updated: May 3, 2025
He rules over me like irresistible destiny!" In a few moments Potemkin returned with the paper. Catharine having looked over it, returned it with a smile. "I thank the King of Prussia for this," said she, gently, "for my last hours will no longer be embittered by anxiety for your safety, Alexandrowitsch. Preserve this paper with care." Potemkin took it from her hand and tore it to pieces.
Oh, Catharine, it is you whom I adore, you who have made of me a lunatic!" Again he buried his face in Catharine's robes, and wept. She, perfectly disarmed, leaned over him, caressing him with her hands, and imploring him to be comforted. "Let me lie here and weep," continued her Alexandrowitsch, "not for me, but for my Catharine the star of my life!
But the empress darted after him like an enraged lioness, and, catching his arm, gasped: "What! you would leave me, Alexandrowitsch?" "Yes I go to Orloff, to receive my death! The empress has willed it, and she shall find me obedient even unto my latest breath." "No, Gregory," said Catharine, weeping profusely, "you shall remain to shield me from my enemies."
Forgotten were her fears, her terror, her dream of vengeance; and, regardless of the hand which was still raised to threaten her, she cried out, in tones of mingled love and anguish: "Oh, Alexandrowitsch, how preter-human is your beauty! You stand, like an avenging god, before me; and I I can only worship and tremble!"
With faltering steps she approached, and folding her arms around his stalwart form, she laid her head upon his breast, and wept. "See," murmured she, "I am here to receive the stroke. Let me die by your hand, Gregory Alexandrowitsch, for since you love me no longer, I am weary of life!"
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