Here it lay in state three days; nay, an Imperial Manifesto even ordered that the last honors and duty be paid to it.

July 20th, I drove thither with my Wife; and to be able to view the body more minutely, we passed twice through the room where it lay.

[An uncommonly broad neckcloth on it, did you observe ?] Owing to the rapid dissolution, it had to be interred on the following day:--and it was a touching circumstance, that this happened to be the very day on which the Czar had fixed to start from Petersburg on his Campaign against Denmark." [Busching, vi.

464-467.] Catharine, one must own with a shudder, has not attained the Autocracy of All the Russias gratis.

Let us hope she would once--till driven upon a dire alternative--have herself shuddered to purchase at such a price.
A kind of horror haunts one's notion of her red-handed brazen-faced Orlofs and her, which all the cosmetics of the world will never quite cover.