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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Ah, Electress!" interrupted George William, "these confidential matters have been bruited abroad everywhere; the talk has been, not merely here at Berlin, but throughout the land, yea, even so far as the imperial court at Vienna, that our son meant to surprise us on his return from the Netherlands by presenting to us the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine as his wife, without applying to us beforehand for our consent.
"Yes," echoed Leuchtmar, smiling, "I find it very comprehensible that the Princess Ludovicka should gladly have him as consort. But we must not submit to it, but do everything to prevent it, for it is contrary to policy and reasons of state.
"The Media Nocte is a society of the honorless and shameless, and the woman who belongs to it is no longer pure!" "No further, man, or I shall kill you!" said the Prince, in a high-pitched voice stifled by rage, while his arms clutched Leuchtmar's shoulders yet more firmly. "Only hear this: You know and have long guessed that I love the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine.
"To the health of the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine of the Palatinate!" said the Electress, with full, distinct voice, and the young ladies repeated it after her. "Here is to her health!" cried Frederick William, with animated features and beaming eyes. "May she be great, happy, and blessed forever!"
I swear unswerving love and fidelity to my Electoral Princess, and that requires no written confirmation. Come to the altar, dearest!" He endeavors to draw her forward, but Ludovicka flings her arm about his neck and holds him back. "Beloved," she whispers, "the contract which we sign concerns not us, but the benevolent, mighty friends, who have lent us their aid, and will help us still further.
"So then, my Electoral Prince, my heart is the fuel you would require?" "Yes, my Princess, I do require it. I implore it of you. Be good, Ludovicka, torment me not. Let me at last feel myself blessed let me put my arm around you, and say and think, she is mine! mine she remains!" "Mine she remains!" repeated Ludovicka, sighing. "Alas!
She must be quite a pretty girl, the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine, and, moreover, of very tender complexion, and not at all disposed to play the prude with the young, handsome Electoral Prince, who seems particularly to please her." "And the Electress is particularly partial to her sister-in-law, the Electress of the Palatinate," said Schwarzenberg thoughtfully.
And does it not naturally follow that you and you alone are to be my wife?" "But they will not suffer it, Frederick!" cried she, with an expression of pain. "No, they will never suffer you to make me your wife." "Who will not suffer it, Ludovicka?"
Ludovicka leaned farther out of the window and saw the dark shadow mount higher and higher; already she heard his breath, and now oh, now he was there, swung himself in at the window, and without saying a word, without seeing anything but herself, only herself alone.
The gods and goddesses call the two Venus and Endymion, but they, in tender whispers, call each other Ludovicka and Frederick. No one disturbs himself about them, no one notices the happy pair, and they observe and regard no one, for they are thinking only of themselves. "Oh, my beloved," whispers the Prince, "how stale and insipid seems this fantastic feast to me to-night!
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