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Title: The Daughter of an Empress

Author: Louise Muhlbach

Release Date: March 25, 2006 [EBook #2132]

Language: English

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THE DAUGHTER OF AN EMPRESS

By Louise Muhlbach

CONTENTS

Countess Natalie Dolgorucki
Count Munnich
Count Ostermann
The Night of the Conspiracy
Hopes Deceived
The Regent Anna Leopoldowna
The Favorite
No Love
Princess Elizabeth
A Conspiracy
The Warning
The Court Ball
The Pencil-Sketch
The Revolution
The Sleep of Innocence
The Recompensing
Punishment
The Palace of the Empress
Eleonore Lapuschkin
A Wedding
Scenes and Portraits
Princes also must die
The Charmed Garden
The Letters
Diplomatic Quarrels
The Fish Feud
Pope Ganganelli (Clement XIV.)
The Pope's Recreation Hour
A Death-Sentence
The Festival of Cardinal Bernis
The Improvisatrice
The Departure
An Honest Betrayer
Alexis Orloff
Corilla
The Holy Chafferers
"Sic transit gloria mundi"
The Vapo
The Invasion
Intrigues
The Dooming Letter
The Russian Officer
Anticipation
He!
The Warning
The Russian Fleet
Conclusion

THE DAUGHTER OF AN EMPRESS

COUNTESS NATALIE DOLGORUCKI

"No, Natalie, weep no more! Quick, dry your tears. Let not my
executioner see that we can feel pain or weep for sorrow!"

Drying her tears, she attempted a smile, but it was an unnatural,
painful smile.

"Ivan," said she, "we will forget, forget all, excepting that we love
each other, and thus only can I become cheerful. And tell me, Ivan, have
I not always been in good spirits? Have not these long eight years in
Siberia passed away like a pleasant summer day? Have not our hearts
remained warm, and has not our love continued undisturbed by the
inclement Siberian cold? You may, therefore, well see that I have