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Updated: May 8, 2025
And you would have me seat myself upon such a dagger-beset throne? No, no, leave me my peace and repose. Let Anna Leopoldowna declare herself empress what should I care? I should have to bend before her with my congratulations. That is all!" And the princess, letting her head glide upon Razumovsky's shoulder, as if exhausted by this long speech, closed her fatigued eyelids.
"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!
"Still the same old dreams!" said Elizabeth, shaking her head and letting Razumovsky's long locks glide through her fingers. "Pay no attention to him, Alexis, he is an enthusiast who dreams of imperial crowns, while I desire nothing but a ball-dress, that in it I may please you, my friend!" "Oh, you always please me," whispered Alexis, "and most pleasing are you when "
As soon as the carriage door was closed, with an angry movement she seized both of Razumovsky's hands. "Look at me," said she "look me directly in the eye, and then tell me, is Eleonore Lapuschkin handsomer than I?" It was the day after the court ball. Princess Elizabeth was in her dressing-room, and occupied in enveloping herself in a very charming and seductive neglige.
Staringly as Alexis Razumovsky's eyes were fixed upon the countess, she, unconscious of this double observation, stood cheerful and unembarrassed in the circle of her admiring friends and adorers.
Under her heart she had felt a movement of a new and mysterious life! Heaven itself seemed to contradict her words! Elizabeth felt that she was a mother, and Eleonore's words now filled her with awe and terror! Fainting, she sank into Razumovsky's arms. A few weeks later, a great and magnificent court festival was celebrated at the imperial palace at St. Petersburg.
"No, you shall not die," cried Elizabeth, with fierce vehemence, throwing her arms around Razumovsky's neck. "I will know how to defend you and myself, Alexis! Ah, they would shackle me, they would force me to marry, because they know I hate marriage.
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