FREDERIC." [_OEuvres,_ xv.

193.] The Office of Grand Master of the Ceremonies was, accordingly, abolished altogether.

But Pollnitz, left loose in this manner, did not gallop direct, or go at all, into monkhood, as he had expected; but, in fact, by degrees, crept home to Berlin again; took the subaltern post of Chamberlain; and there, in the old fashion (straitened in finance, making loans, retailing anecdotes, not witty but the cause of wit), wore out life's gray evening; till, about thirty years hence, he died; "died as he had lived, swindling the very night before his decease," writes Friedrich; [Letter to Voltaire, 13th August, 1775 (_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxiii.

344).

See Preuss, v.