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

CHAPTER VI
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-- WILHELMINA'S WEDDING.
Tuesday, 20th November, 1731, Wilhelmina's wedding-day arrived, after a brideship of eight months; and that young Lady's troublesome romance, more happily than might have been expected, did at last wind itself up.
Mamma's unreasonable humors continued, more or less; but these also must now end.

Old wooers and outlooks, "the four or three crowned heads,"-- they lie far over the horizon; faded out of one's very thoughts, all these.

Charles XII., Peter II.

are dead; Weissenfels is not, but might as well be.


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