The Warning-The Department for Heraldry-The Office of the Home Minister--The Third Expedition-General Novgorod - The Regency—I am under My own Sur- veillance The Secretaries and Paul I.-The Fatherly Government of the Land Proprietors - Count Arak- MY EXILE. CHAPTER I. Correspondence. TWICE a week the post arrived at Wiatka from Moscow. With what deep emotion did I wait every time at the post-office for the distribution of the letters! How did I tremble in breaking the seal and searching among the letters, which came from home, if there was not a small note in them, beautifully written on thin paper ! VOL. II. B And when I had got it, I did not read it in the post-office, but went slowly home, delaying the moment of reading and enjoying the idea that a note was there All those letters are preserved. They are left in Moscow. How should I like to read them once more, and yet I tremble to touch them! Letters are more than recollections; in them the very blood of past events are congealed; they are the past itself as it has been-preserved in immortality. Why then once more recognise, look and touch then? Why touch the bridal ornaments with a hand wrinkled by age? CHAPTER II. The Hereditary Grand Duke in Wiatka - Tufeyeff's Fall-The Transportation to Wladimir-A Chief Official of a District under Trial. THE hereditary Grand Duke comes to Wiatka! The heditary Grand Duke travels through Russia to see his empire, and to be seen. This news frightened all, particularly the governor. He was greatly embarrassed what to do, and committed an incredible mass of absurdities. He ordered the peasants who |