whom they want a Brandenburg Prince,--"could not I marry her?
Let her come into this Country, and think no more of Russia:
she would have a dowry of two or three millions of roubles,--only
fancy how I could live with that! I think that project might
succeed. The Princess is Lutheran; perhaps she objects to go into
the Greek Church?--I find none of these advantages in this
Princess of Bevern; who, as many people, even of the Duke's Court,
say, is not at all beautiful, speaks almost nothing, and is given
to pouting (FAISANT LA FACHEE). The good Kaiserinn has so little
herself, that the sums she could afford her Niece would be very
moderate." [Fragment given in Sechendorfs Leben, italic> iii. 249 u.]

"Given to pouting," too! No, certainly; your Insipidity of
Brunswick, without prospects of ready money; dangerous for
CAGOTAGE; "not a word to say for herself in company, and given to
pouting:" I do not reckon her the eligible article!--

Seckendorf, Schulenburg, Grumkow and all hands are busy in this
matter: geeho-ing the Crown-Prince towards the mark set before
him. With or without explosion, arrive there he must; other goal
for him is none!--In the mean while, it appears, illustrious Franz
of Lorraine, coming on, amid the proper demonstrations, through
Magdeburg and the Prussian Towns, has caught some slight illness
and been obliged to pause; so that Berlin cannot have the
happiness of seeing him quite so soon as it expected. The high
guests invited to meet Duke Franz, especially the high Brunswicks,
are already there. High Brunswicks, Bevern with Duchess, and still
more important, with Son and with Daughter:--insipid CORPUS
DELICTI herself has appeared on the scene; and Grumkow, we find,