His Wife is a Prussian Margravine (Friedrich Wilhelm's HALF-AUNT), and cultivates Calvinism in the Lutheran Country: this Husband of hers, he too has an abstruse life, not likely to last.

We need not doubt 'the Fates' are busy, and the evil demons, with those poor fellow-beings! Nay it is said the Circe is becoming much of a Hecate now; if the bewitched Duke could see it.

She is getting haggard beyond the power of rouge; her mind, any mind she has, more and more filled with spleen, malice, and the dregs of pride run sour.

A disgusting creature, testifies one Ex-Official gentleman, once a Hofrath under her, but obliged to run for life, and invoke free press in his defence: [_Apologie de Monsieur Forstner de Breitembourg, &c._ (Paris, 1716; or "a Londres, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1745"): in Spittler, _Geschichte Wurtembergs_ (Spittlers WERKE, Stuttgard und Tubingen, 1828; vol.v.), 497-539.

Michaelis, iii.