In the evening, he got a glass or two in his head, and grew extremely merry; said at last, 'He was sorry that, for divers state-reasons and businesses of moment, he must of necessity return home;'-- which, however, he put off till about two in the morning.
I think, next day he would not remember very much of it.
"Prince Heinrich is gone to his Regiment again;" Praetorius too is off;--and we end with the proper KOW-TOW.

[_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xvii.
part 3d, p.

109.] These Strelitzers, we said, are juniors to infatuated Schwerin; and poor Mirow is again junior to Strelitz: plainly one of the least opulent of Residences.

At present, it is Dowager Apanage (WITTWEN-SITZ) to the Widow of the late Strelitz of blessed memory: here, with her one Child, a boy now grown to what manhood we see, has the Serene Dowager lived, these twenty-eight years past; a Schwartzburg by birth, "the cleverest head among them all." Twenty-eight years in dilapidated Mirow: so long has that Tailoring Duke, her eldest STEP-SON (child of a prior wife) been Supreme Head of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; employed with his needle, or we know not how,--collapsed plainly into tailoring at this date.

There was but one other Son; this clever Lady's, twenty years junior,--"Prince of Mirow" whom we now see.