distinction, rose also to be Feldmarschall;
Cousins too, sons of a Kammer-President von Katte at Magdeburg, rose to
Army rank in time coming; but not this poor Katte,--whom let the reader
note!

"General Katte his Father," continues Wilhelmina, "had sent him to the
Universities, and afterwards to travel, desiring he should be a Lawyer.
But as there was no favor to expect out of the Army, the young man found
himself at last placed there, contrary to his expectation. He continued
to apply himself to studies; he had wit, book-culture, acquaintance with
the world; the good company which he continued to frequent had given
him polite manners, to a degree then rare in Berlin. His physiognomy
was rather disagreeable than otherwise. A pair of thick black eyebrows
almost covered the eyes of him; his look had in it something ominous,
presage of the fate he met with: a tawny skin, torn by small-pox,
increased his ugliness. He affected the freethinker, and carried
libertinism to excess; a great deal of ambition and headlong rashness
accompanied this vice." A dangerous adviser here in the Berlin element,
with lightnings going!"Such a favorite was not the man to bring back my
Brother from his follies. This I learned at our [Mamma's and my] return
to Berlin," from the Wusterhausen and the Potsdam tribulations;--and
think of it, not without terror, now that the extremity seems coming or
come.

Chapter IX. -- DOUBLE-MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE.

For one thing, Friedrich Wilhelm, weary of all this English pother and
futility, will end the Double-Marriage speculation; Wilhelmina shall be
disposed of, and so an end. Friedrich Wilhelm, once the hunting was over
at Wusterhausen, ran across, southward,--to "Lubnow," Wilhelmina calls
it,--to Lubben in the Nether Lausitz, [25th October, 1729 (Fassmann, p.
404).] a short day's drive; there to meet incognito the jovial Polish
Majesty, on his route towards Dresden; to see a review or so; and have
a little talk with the ever-cheerful Man of Sin. Grumkow and Seckendorf,
of course these accompany; Majesty's shadow is not surer.

Review was held at Lubben, Weissenfels Commander-in-chief taking charge;
dinner also, a dinner or two, with much talk and drink;--and there
it was settled, Wilhelmina has since known, that Weissenfels, Royal
Highness in the Abstract, was to be her Husband, after all. Weissenfels
will do; either Weissenfels or else the Margraf of Schwedt, thinks
Friedrich Wilhel