"She had found the secret of totally ruining Baireuth," says Wilhelmina; "Baireuth, and Courland as well, where her first wedlock was;"-- perhaps Meiningen was done to her hand?
Here is the Portrait of "my Grand-Aunt;" dashed off in very high colors, not by a flattering pencil:-- "It is said she was very fond of pleasing, in her youth; one saw as much still by her affected manners.

She would have made an excellent actress, to play fantastic parts of that kind.

Her flaming red countenance, her shape, of such monstrous extent that she could hardly walk, gave her the air of a Female Bacchus.

She took care to expose to view her"-- a part of her person, large but no longer beautiful,--"and continually kept patting it with her hands, to attract attention thither.

Though sixty gone,"-- fifty-seven in point of fact,--"she was tricked out like a girl; hair done in ribbon-locks (MARRONNES), all filled with gewgaws of rose-pink color, which was the prevailing tint in her complexion, and so loaded with colored jewels, you would have taken her for the rainbow." [Wilhelmina, i.