and a nose--or rather almost no nose, for sad reasons!
[Wilhelmina, ii. 121.] Other qualities or accidents I know not of
him,--except that he is Father of the Vienna Kaiserinn;
Grandfather of the Princess whom Seckendorf suggests for our
Friedrich of Prussia.

In Ludwig Rudolf's insipid offspring our readers are unexpectedly
somewhat interested; let readers patiently attend, therefore.
He had three Daughters, never any son. Two of his Daughters,
eldest and youngest, are alive still; the middle one had a sad
fate long ago. She married, in 1711, Alexius the Czarowitz of
Peter the Great: foolish Czarowitz, miserable and making others
miserable, broke her heart by ill conduct, ill usage, in four
years; so that she died; leaving him only a poor small Peter II.,
who is now dead too, and that matter ended all but the memory of
it. Some accounts bear, that she did not die; that she only
pretended it, and ran and left her intolerable Czarowitz. That she
wedded, at Paris, in deep obscurity, an Officer just setting out
for Louisiana; lived many years there as a thrifty soldier's wife;
returned to Paris with her Officer reduced to half-pay; and told
him--or told some select Official person after him, under
seven-fold oath, being then a widow and necessitous--her sublime
secret. Sublime secret, which came thus to be known to a supremely
select circle at Paris; and was published in Books, where one
still reads it. No vestige of truth in it,--except that perhaps
a necessitous soldier's widow at Paris, considering of ways and
means, found that she had some trace of likeness to the Pictures
of this Princess, and had heard her tragic story.

Ludwig Rudolf's second Daughter is dead long years ago; nor has