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The big Widow discovered that he did not like Westphalia hams in that particular form; that he only pretended to like them; upon which, in just indignation, she disowned and dismissed him; and falling herself to be Czarina not long afterwards, and taking Bieren the Courlander for her beloved, she made Bieren Duke, and Courland became impossible for Count Maurice.
Bieren her dear Courlander, once little better than a Horse-groom, now Duke of Courland, Quasi-Husband to the late Big Cheek, and thereby sovereign of Russia, this long while past, is left Official Head in Russia.
A Courlander, of good family, this Keyserling; of good gifts too, which, it was once thought, would be practically sublime; for he carried off all manner of college prizes, and was the Admirable-Crichton of Konigsberg University and the Graduates there. But in the end they proved to be gifts of the vocal sort rather: and have led only to what we see.
He had enjoyed remarkable opportunities for more than a year of studying the Courland vintage of lies for every nation has its own style of lies. A Frenchman lies not like a German. A Courlander lies however, it has been said that the devil and ninety-nine Courlanders make a hundred liars.
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