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Enchantress Orzelska wedded, quarrelled, and is in a convent: her charming destiny concluded. Rutowski is not now in the Prussian Army: he got beaten, Wednesday last, at Kesselsdorf, fighting against that Army. And the Chevalier de Saxe, he too was beaten there; clambering now across the Metal Mountains, ask not of him. August the Physically Strong is dead.
Truly a tempting aspect of the Devil, this expensive Orzelska: something beautiful in her, if there are no Laws in this Universe; not so beautiful, if there are! Enough to turn the head of a poor Crown-Prince, if she like, for some time. He is just sixteen gone; one of the prettiest lads and sprightliest; his homage, clearly enough, is not disagreeable to the baggage.
The Formera, beautiful as painted Chaos; yes, her; and why not, after a while, the Orzelska too, all the same? A wonderful Armida-Garden, sure enough. The miseries all this brought into his existence, into his relations with a Father very rigorous in principle, and with a Universe still more so, for years to come, were neither few nor small.
From considerable Collections of Anecdotes illustrating this fact, in a way now fallen vapid to us, I select only the Introduction: No reader of this History can recollect it; nor indeed, except in a mythic sense, believe it! How much is changed! August the Strong, where is he; and his famous Three Hundred and Fifty-four, Enchantress Orzelska and the others, where are they?
"With my Brother it was otherwise. Wilhelmina says, her poor Brother had been already charmed over head and ears by a gay young baggage of a Countess Orzelska; a very high and airy Countess there; whose history is not to be touched, except upon compulsion, and as if with a pair of tongs, thrice famous as she once was in this Saxon Court of Beelzebub.
Young Maurice, "Count of Saxony," famed afterwards as MARECHAL DE SAXE, he also is here with his Half-Sister Orzelska and the others, in the train of the paternal Man of Sin; and makes acquaintance with Friedrich. He resembles his Father in strength, vivacity, above all things in debauchery, and disregard of finance.
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