473; Seckendorf, in Forster, iii.

6).] "Mamma had given a ball in honor of Papa's Birthday,"-- Tuesday, 15th August, 1730;--and we were all dancing in the fine saloons of Monbijou, with pretty intervals in the cool boscages and orangeries of the place: all of us as happy as could be; Wilhelmina, in particular, dancing at an unusual rate.

"We recommenced the ball after supper.

For six years I had not danced before; it was new fruit, and I took my fill of it, without heeding much what was passing.

Madame Bulow, who with others of them had worn long faces all night, pleading 'illness' when one noticed it, said to me several times: 'It is late, I wish you had done,'-- 'EH, MON DIEU!' I answered, 'let me have enough of dancing this one new time; it may be long before it comes again.'-- 'That may well be!' said she.