Hotham said to the Swedish Ambassador: 'Reichenbach, walking in
the dark, would give himself a fine knock on the nose
( aurait un furieux pied de nez ), when,' or
IF, 'the thing was done quite otherwise.' Have a caution what
you write."

Pooh, pooh! Hotham must have said "if," not "when;" Swede is quite
astray!--And indeed we will here leave off, and shut down this
magazine of rubbish; right glad to wash ourselves wholly from it
(in three waters) forevermore. Possibly enough the Prussian
Dryasdust will, one day, print it IN EXTENSO, and with that
lucidity of comment and arrangement which is peculiar to him;
exasperated readers will then see whether I have used them ILL or
not, according to the opportunity there was!--Here, at any rate,
my reader shall he free of it. Indeed he may perceive, the
negotiation was by this time come to a safe point, the
Nosti-Grumkows triumphant, and the interest of the matter mainly
out. Farther transient anxieties this amiable couple had,--
traceable in that last short croak from Grumkow,--lest the English
might consent to that of the "Single-Marriage in the mean time"
(which the English never did, or meant to do). For example, this
other screech of Nosti, which shall be his final last-screech:--

LONDON, 12th MAY.--"Lord Townshend alarmingly hinted to me:
Better have done with your Grumkow-and-Seckendorf speculations:
the ill-intentioned are perfectly sure to be found out at the end
of the account; and their tools will get ruined along with them.
Nosti endeavored to talk big in reply: but he shakes in his shoes
nevertheless; and with a heart full of distraction exclaims now,
Save yourselves, save me!--If Hotham speak of the Single-Marriage