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Eight o'clock: so that Wilhelmina is obliged at once to get upon the road again, poor Princess, after such a day and night. Her description of the Interview is very good: "My Brother overwhelmed me with caresses; but found me in so pitiable a state, he could not restrain his tears. "I told him all the Margraf's reasons; and added, that surely they were good, in respect of my dear Husband.
Amy wanted to see a certain cell, where a nun was said to have pined to death because she would not listen to the Margraf's love.
Incessant praises were given him, especially for his fine clothes, his fine air, and his uncommon agility in dancing. And indeed I thought the dancing would never end. "In the afternoon, to spoil his fine coat," a contrivance of the Ill Margraf's, I should think, "we stept out to shoot at target in the rain: he would not speak of it, but one could observe he was in much anxiety about the coat.
The etiquette of all Courts in the Empire is, that nobody who has not at the least the rank of Captain can sit at a Prince's table: my Brother put a Lieutenant there, who was in his suite; saying to me, 'A King's Lieutenants are as good as a Margraf's Ministers. I swallowed this incivility, and showed no sign. I know I have made you great promises; but I am not in a condition to keep them.
After a longer demur than he was accustomed to raise to any scheme of Margraf's, however wild and chimerical, Charlie at last let his usual submission, and a vague suspicion that his companionship might be dragging Margraf back from attaining a position more worthy of that gentleman's talents, get the better of him.
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