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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XVI. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER X
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All the year [NOT QUITE] she dines alone.

Has Apartment on Thursdays; everybody gone at nine o'clock.

Her morsels are cut for her, her steps are counted, and her words are dictated; she is miserable, and does what she can to hide it"-- according to our Small Devil.

"She has scarcely the necessaries of life allowed her,"-- spends regularly two-thirds of her income in charitable objects; translates French-Calvinist Devotional Works, for benefit of the German mind; and complains to no Small Devil, of never so sympathizing nature.

"At Court she is lodged on the second floor [scandalous].


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