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"Ah, he ventures to intercede for her!" cried Elizabeth, with a hoarse laugh, and, turning to Lestocq, she continued, with anger-flashing eyes: "Lestocq, I have yet a condition to make before consenting to become an empress." "Name your condition, princess, and if it be within the compass of human power it shall be fulfilled."
Anna Leopoldowna had hardly left the room in which she had been surprised and captured, when Lestocq turned to Grunstein with a new order. "Now," said he, in an undertone to him "now hasten to seize the emperor. This little Ivan must be annihilated." Elizabeth had overheard these words, and remembering Anna's last prayer, she exclaimed with vehemence: "No, no, I say, he shall not be annihilated!
"The question is of your head, princess, and as a true physician I would help you to preserve it. Therefore, dearest princess, I beseech you, repeat to me that conversation with the regent." "Will you then immediately give me a recipe for my eyes?" "Yes, I will." "Well, listen, then." And the princess repeated, word for word, to the breathless Lestocq, her conversation with Anna Leopoldowna.
"Ah," sighed Elizabeth, when, on the evening of this glorious day, she was again alone with her confidential friends, "ah, my friends, I have now complied with your wishes and allowed you to make an empress of me! But forget not, Lestocq, that I have become empress only on condition that I am not to be troubled with business and state affairs.
Until now all had seemed like a dream, a play of the imagination; but when she read in Lestocq's bold and resolved features that it was a reality, she shook with terror, and an anxious fear overpowered her soul. "And if it miscarry?" said she, thoughtfully. "It will not and cannot miscarry!" responded Lestocq. "The right is on your side, and God will watch over the daughter of the great czar."
We will take another look at these magnificent presents. Ah! truly they are dearer to me than the possession of empire." "The Princess Elizabeth can thus speak only in jest," said an earnest voice behind them. "Ah, Lestocq!" said the princess, with a friendly nod. "You come very late, my friend."
A movement suddenly arose in the rooms, the crowd divided and respectfully withdrew to the sides, and through the rows of smiling, humbly bowing courtiers passed the Princess Elizabeth, followed by her chamberlain Woronzow, her private secretary Alexis Razumovsky, and her physician Lestocq, in the splendor of her beauty and grace, all kindness, all smiles.
Bennigsen had withdrawn beyond the river Alle; Soult and Lannes, with Murat in advance, were sent up its left bank to Heilsberg; Davout and Mortier were to pass farther on, as part of a general movement to surround; Ney and the guard were held in reserve, while Victor was despatched to block Lestocq.
"We have transferred Biron to another colony, and Herr Munnich will occupy the poetical pleasure-house of his friend Biron at Pelym." "Ah, that is delightful, in fact!" cried Elizabeth, clapping her little hands. "How will Munnich curse himself for cruelty which now comes home to himself! That is very witty in you, Herr Lestocq; very laughable, is it not, Alexis?
Dismissing her attendants with an imperious nod, she hastened to meet the entering physician. "Lestocq," said she, "it is well you have come at this moment, else, perhaps, I might have forgotten to say to you that it is all over with the conjuration spun and woven by you and the French marquis.
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