Curse Not the King
“A messenger summoned the Czarevitch, who found his mother already standing by the mattress and the room rapidly filling with courtiers. Paul bowed stiffly to the Empress and then saluted his wife.
“I wish you comfort in your pain, Madame,” he said formally. Then he turned towards Catherine, and for a moment mother and son looked on each other with the cold hostility that neither troubled to conceal.
“This time you shan’t be disappointed; you shall have your heir, Madame,” he said quietly.
“I tr...ust so,” she answered him. “You owe me that, at least.” He walked away from her then, pushing his way through the crowds who stood on tiptoe, watching the sweating Marie in the indignity of childbirth, and stood by one of the long windows, staring out with dilated, sightless eyes.
He knew what was to come, knew that this spectacle was only the prelude to a drama that all Petersburg had waited for for years. The birth of his child was to be the signal for his arrest. Catherine had made up her mind; the resolution looked out of her eyes when they rested on him, and sounded in the tones of her voice.MoreLess
“I wish you comfort in your pain, Madame,” he said formally. Then he turned towards Catherine, and for a moment mother and son looked on each other with the cold hostility that neither troubled to conceal.
“This time you shan’t be disappointed; you shall have your heir, Madame,” he said quietly.
“I tr...ust so,” she answered him. “You owe me that, at least.” He walked away from her then, pushing his way through the crowds who stood on tiptoe, watching the sweating Marie in the indignity of childbirth, and stood by one of the long windows, staring out with dilated, sightless eyes.
He knew what was to come, knew that this spectacle was only the prelude to a drama that all Petersburg had waited for for years. The birth of his child was to be the signal for his arrest. Catherine had made up her mind; the resolution looked out of her eyes when they rested on him, and sounded in the tones of her voice.MoreLess
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