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For two long years had Elizabeth borne about with her this hatred and jealousy; for two long years had she in vain sought to discover some punishable fault in her rival; for two long years had she in vain reminded Lestocq of his promise to find Eleonore Lapuschkin guilty of some crime.
"And yet too soon to bring you bad news!" said Lestocq, with a profound and respectful bow to the princess. "Bad news?" repeated Elizabeth, turning pale. "Mon Dieu, am I, then, one too many for them here? Would they kill me, or send me in exile to Siberia?" "Yet worse!" laconically responded Lestocq. "But, first of all, let us be cautious, and take care that we have no listeners."
"Princess Elizabeth!" exclaimed Lestocq, with solemnity, "I have come for you. The throne awaits its empress!" "Up, Princess Elizabeth," said Alexis, "take courage, my fair empress, give us an example of spirit and resolution!" The princess slowly raised her pale face from Razumovsky's shoulder, and looking around with timid glances, faintly said: "I suffer fearfully! This anguish will kill me!
"Explain? Why should I seek an explanation for things that do not at all interest me? What is it to me what the surgeon Lestocq has to do with the constantly-ailing French ambassador? Or do you think I should trouble myself about the lavements administered to an ambassador by a surgeon?" "Well, then, your highness will allow me to explain their meetings from a less medical point of view?
Lannes, who had simultaneously made a final onset, was also beaten off by the superior force of his enemy. On the same day, Murat, Davout, and Augereau reached the neighboring village of Golymin, expecting to find the Russian center there; on the left wing, at Neidenburg, Ney stood face to face with Lestocq and his Prussians.
"Well?" she anxiously asked, as Lestocq remained silent. "Speak on; then what further?" "Illustrious empress," said Lestocq, "I am now here to redeem my word. This Countess Eleonore Lapuschkin is a criminal!" "Ah, thank God!" cried Elizabeth, breathing more freely.
The idea that I should conspire against you, against you whom I love, and to whom, upon the sacred books of our religion, I have sworn eternal fidelity and devotion! Anna, Anna, I swear to you by the soul of my father, I am innocent, as also is my friend. Lestocq has never passed the threshold of the French ambassador's hotel!
I already see them lurking around me, encircling me on all sides, to destroy me! Lestocq, save me from my murderers!" And with a cry of anguish the empress clung convulsively to the arm of her physician. "The incautiousness of these conspirators has already saved you, empress," said Lestocq. "They have delivered themselves into our hand, they have made us masters of the situation.
On the eighth of February, the French army, about 70,000 strong, advanced against the allies, commanded by Benningsen and Lestocq. At the town of Eylau, about twenty miles from Königsberg, a great but indecisive battle was fought, in which each army suffered a loss of nearly eighteen thousand men.
"Princess," said Lestocq, rising, "these four men, at whom you now laugh, will make you empress, and then it will be in your power to convert this chirurgeon into a privy councillor and court physician, this bankrupt merchant into a rich banker, this chamberlain into an imperial lord-marshal, and your private secretary into a count or prince of the empire."
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