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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. VII. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER V
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I think she is now, since the marriage, gone to reside at her WITTWENSITZ (Dowager-Seat) of Feuchtwang (twenty miles southwest of us); but may have come up to welcome the Majesties into these parts.

Very beautiful, I hear; still almost young and charming, though there is a mortal malady upon her, which she knows of.

[Pollnitz, _Memoirs and Letters,_ i.

209 (date, 29th September, 1729;--needs WATCHING before believing).] Here are certain Seckendorfs too, this is the Feldzeugmeister's native country;--and there are resources for a Royal Travelling-Party.

How long the Royal Party stayed at Anspach I do not know; nor what they did there,--except that Crown-Prince Friedrich is said to have privately asked the young Margraf to lend him a pair of riding-horses, and say nothing of it; who, suspecting something wrong, was obliged to make protestations and refuse.
As to the Crown-Prince, there is no doubt but here at last things are actually coming to a crisis with him.


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