It is full three months since I sent the shrewd and handsome Count Detzin on his devilish mission to my brother's daughter Constance.

If he fail, we are not wholly safe, but if he do succeed, no power can bar our girl from being Duchess e'en though ill-fortune should decree she never should be Duke!" "My heart is full of bodings, yet all may still be well." "Tush, woman! Leave the owls to croak.

To bed with ye, and dream of Brandenburgh and grandeur!".