Till at length she went quite mad; and, except the due medical and other attendants, nobody saw her, or spoke of her, at Berlin.

Was this a cheering issue of such an adventure to the poor old expensive Gentleman?
He endeavored to digest in silence the bitter morsel he had cooked for himself; but reflected often, as an old King might, What dirt have I eaten! In this way stands that matter in the Schloss of Berlin, when little Friedrich, who will one day be called the Great, is born.

Habits of the expensive King, hours of rising, modes of dressing, and so forth, are to be found in Pollnitz; [Pollnitz, _Memoiren zur Lebens-und Regierungs-Geschichte der Vier letzten Regenten des Preussischen Staats_ (Berlin, 1791).

A vague, inexact, but not quite uninstructive or uninteresting Book: Printed also in FRENCH, which was the Original, same place and time.] but we charitably omit them all.

Even from foolish Pollnitz a good eye will gather, what was above intimated, that this feeble-backed, heavy-laden old King was of humane and just disposition; had dignity in his demeanor; had reticence, patience; and, though hot-tempered like all the Hohenzollerns, that he bore himself like a perfect gentleman for one thing; and tottered along his high-lying lonesome road not in an unmanful manner at all.