421, 422).] he left order that the Gravenitz was to be got out of his sight, safe stowed away, before his return.

Which by the proper officers, military certain of them, was accomplished,--by fixed bayonets at last, and not without futile demur on the part of the Gravenitz.

Poor Eberhard Ludwig, "he published in the pulpits, That he was now minded to lead a better life,"-- had time now been left him.

Same year, 1731, November being come, gloomy Eberhard Ludwig lost, not unexpectedly, his one Son,--the one Grandson was gone long since.

The serene steadfast Duchess now had her Duke again, what was left of him: but he was fallen into the sere and yellow leaf; in two years more, he died childless; [31st October, 1733: Michaelis, iii.