And the Pope, hearing of this, had to send him a valuable Gift, which you may see some day.' Nussler did, one day, see this preciosity: a Crucifix, ebony bordered with gold, and the Body all of that metal, on the smallest of altars,--in Walrave's bedroom.

But it was the bedroom itself which Nussler looked at with a shudder," Nussler and we: "in the middle of it stood Walrave's own bed, on his right hand that of his Wife, and on his left that of his Mistress:"-- a brutish polygamous Walrave! "This Mistress was a certain Quarter-Master's Wife,"-- Quarter-Master willing, it is probable, to get rid of such an article gratis, much more on terms of profit.

"Walrave had begged for him the Title of Hofrath from King Friedrich,"-- which, though it was but a clipping of ribbon contemptible to Friedrich, and the brute of an Engineer had excellent talents in his business, I rather wish Friedrich had refused in this instance.

But he did not; "he answered in gibing tone, 'I grant you the Hofrath Title for your Quarter-Master; thinking it but fit that a General's'-- What shall we call her?
(Friedrich uses the direct word)--'should have some handle to her name.'" [Busching, _Beitrage,_ i.

343-348.] It was this Mistress, one is happy to know, that ultimately betrayed the unbeautiful Walrave, and brought him to Magdeburg for the rest of his life .-- And now let us over the Mountains, to Chrudim again; a hundred and fifty miles at one step..