But the King, though he employed men of this stamp (officers to seduce the subjects of his allies) could not acknowledge his own shame.

Letters were written back from Berlin to say that such a family existed in the kingdom, but that the person representing himself to belong to it must be an impostor, for every officer of the name was at his regiment and his post.

It was Galgenstein's death-warrant, and he was hanged as a spy in Strasburg.
'Turn him into the cart with the rest,' said he, as soon as I awoke from my trance..