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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XX. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER X
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Czarina Catharine followed, also on foot, with a lighted taper; her cloak borne by all her Ladies.

Three hundred grenadiers closed the procession.

Bells tolling, minute-guns firing, seas of people crowding."-- Thus the Russians buried their Czarina.

Day and its dusky frost-curtains sank; and Bootes, looking down from the starry deeps, found one Telluric Anomaly forever hidden from him.

She had left of unworn Dresses, the richest procurable in Nature (five a day her usual allowance, and never or seldom worn twice), "15,000 and some hundreds." [Hermann, v.


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