untry house with the hated spy
as my Grand Mistress--My first impulse to go home,
but afraid parents won't have me 103

CHAPTER XXII

"POOR RELATIONS" IN ROYAL HOUSES

Myself and Frederick Augustus quarrel and pound table--The
Countess Cosel's golden vessel--Off to Brighton--Threat
of a beating--I provoke shadows of divorce--King
threatens force--More defiance on my part--I
humble the King and am allowed to invite my brother
Leopold 105

CHAPTER XXIII

A SERVANT-TYRANT

My correspondence is not safe from the malicious woman
appointed Grand Mistress--Lovers at a distance and by
correspondence--Fell in love with a leg 115

CHAPTER XXIV

MORE TYRANNY OF A TITLED SERVANT

My daily papers seized, and only milk-and-water clippings
are submitted--"King's orders"--Grand Mistress's veracity
doubted--My threats of suspension cow her 119

CHAPTER XXV

THE TWO BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMILY UNITED

Leopold upon my troubles and his own--Imperial Hapsburgs
that, though Catholics, got divorces or married
divorced women--Books that are full of guilty knowledge,
according to royalty--A mud-hole lodging for one
Imperial Highness--Leopold's girl--What I think of
army officers' wives--Their anonymous letters--Leopold's
money troubles--We will fool our enemies by
feigning obedience 123

CHAPTER XXVI

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS CONTINUES VERY RAW

Manners _a la_ barracks natural to royal princes--Names I
am called--My ladies scandalized--Leopold turned over
a new leaf, according to agreement, and is well treated--The
King grateful to me for having "influenced Leopold
to be good" 129

CHAPTER XXVII

PRINCE MAX MAKES LOVE TO ME

Wants me to consult him on all spiritual matters--Warns me
against the Kaiser, the heretic bishop--Princes as ill-mannered
as Russian-Jew up-starts 133

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE SHAH OF PERSIA FALLS IN LOVE WITH ME

The "animal" and his show of diamonds and rubies--Overcome
by love he treats me like a lady of the harem--On
the def