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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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youngladies of the courts of Europe in order to select a suitable wife for him. Headmired talent, brilliancy, wit, and he said in substance to the Minister ofState, — influence my father if you can to obtain for me a gifted and elegant prin-cess. Of all things in the world I would hate to have a dull and commonplacewife. His father made choice of the Princess Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick, agirl famous for her awkwardness and stupidity. The prince did everything in his power to prevent the marriage. But theold king declared that he should marry her, and the wedding ceremony wasarranged, Frederick in the mean time protesting that he held the bride in utterdetestation. Frederick had a sister whom he dearly loved, Wilhelmina. Two days afterhis marriage, he introduced the bride to her, and said, — This is a sister whom I adore. She has had the goodness to promise thatshe will take care of you and give you good advice. I wish you to do nothingwithout her consent. Do you understand ?
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VOLTAIRE. NIGHT THE SIXTH. 151 The young bride, scarcely eighteen, was speechless. She expected care and advice from her husband, and not from his sister. Wilhelmina embraced her tenderly. Frederick waited for an answer to his question. But she stood dumb. Plague take the blockhead! he at last exclaimed, and with this complimentbegan the long and sorrowful story of her wedded life. She was a good woman and bore her husbands neglect with patience.Strangely enough, in his old age Frederick .came to love her; for he discovered,after a prejudice of years, that she had a noble soul. Frederick died in 1786. In his will he made a most liberal allowance for hiswife, and bore testimony to her excellent character, saying that she never hadcaused him the least discontent, and her incorruptible virtue was worthy of loveand consideration. She survived the king eleven years. Willie Clifton related a true story. THE UNNERVED HUSSAR. A man once entered the vaults of a church by night, to rob a corpse

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