In fine, it was better for Leopold to marry the Miss Fos; which he actually did (1698, in his twenty-second year), "with the left-hand,"-- and then with the right and both hands; having got her properly ennobled before long, by his splendid military services.

She made, as we have hinted, an excellent Wife to him, for the fifty or sixty ensuing years.
This is a strange rugged specimen, this inarticulate Leopold; already getting mythic, as we can perceive, to the polished vocal ages; which mix all manner of fables with the considerable history he has.

Readers will see him turn up again in notable forms.

A man hitherto unknown except in his own country; and yet of very considerable significance to all European countries whatsoever; the fruit of his activities, without his name attached, being now manifest in all of them.

He invented the iron ramrod; he invented the equal step; in fact, he is the inventor of modern military tactics.