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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XVII. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER I
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363).] Excellency Peubla is answered, 24th June: 'We would so fain catch him, if we could! We have tried at Stendal,--not there: tried his Mother-in-law; knows nothing: have forborne laying up his poor Wife and Children; and hope her Imperial Majesty will have pity on that poor creature, who is fallen so miserable.' [_Helden-Geschichte,_ iii.

713.] So that Excellency Peubla had nothing for it but to compose himself; to honor the unstainable fidelity of Weingarten Senior by a public piece of promotion, which soon ensued; and let the Junior run.

Weingarten Junior, on the first suspicion, had vanished with due promptitude,--was not to be unearthed again.

We perceive he has married his Charlottenburg Beauty, and there are helpless babies.

It seems, he lived long years after, in the Altmark, as a Herr von Weiss,'-- his reflections manifold, but unknown.


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