I will not submit to this law!" "Poor child!" said Catharine, "nevertheless you will be obliged to learn well how to submit; for one is not a princess without paying for it.

No one asks whether our heart bleeds.

They throw a purple robe over it, and though it be reddened with our heart's blood, who then sees and suspects it?
You are yet so young, Elizabeth; you yet hope so much!" "I hope so much, because I have already suffered so much--my eyes have been already made to shed so many tears.

I have already in my childhood had to take before-hand my share of the pain and sorrow of life; now I will demand my share of life's pleasure and enjoyment also." "And who tells you that you shall not have it?
This love forces on you no particular husband; it but gives you the proud right, once disputed, of seeking your husband among the princes of royal blood." "Oh," cried Elizabeth, with flashing eyes, "if I should ever really be a queen, I should be prouder to choose a husband whom I might make a king, than such a one as would make me a queen.

[Footnote: Elizabeth's own words,--Leti, vol.ii, p.