I know my enemy too well to suppose that it is more than postponed, but every delay is so much gained.

I have news to-day that the Czar is alarmingly ill.

Should Heaven take him, it would be the dawn of a better era for Russia.

His son is a man of very different mould.

He has fallen into disgrace with his father for his liberal ideas, and he is known to think, as I do, that serfdom is the curse of the empire." "But surely," Dick Hawtry said, "if we draw out a document signed by us and Alexis, saying that we overheard the plot to obtain false evidence against you, the emperor would not believe other false accusations which your enemies might invent ?" "You little know Russia," the count said.