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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Volume IV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER V
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Tyrannous Mamsell Leti, [Leti, Governess to Wilhelmina, but soon dismissed for insolent cruelty and other bad conduct, was daughter of that Gregorio Leti ("Protestant Italian Refugee," "Historiographer of Amsterdam," &c.

&c.), who once had a pension in this country; and who wrote History-Books, a _Life of Cromwell_ one of them, so regardless of the difference between true and false.] treacherous Mamsell Ramen, valet-surgeon Eversmann, and plenty more: readers of Wilhelmina's Book are too well acquainted with them.

Nor are expert Conjurers wanting; capable to work strange feats with so plastic an element as Friedrich Wilhelm's mind.

Let this one short glimpse of such Subterranean World be sufficient indication to the reader's fancy.
Creutz was not dismissed, as some people had expected he might be.

Creutz continues Finance-Minister; makes a great figure in the fashionable Berlin world in these coming years, and is much talked of in the old Books,--though, as he works mostly underground, and merely does budgets and finance-matters with extreme talent and success, we shall hope to hear almost nothing more of him.


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