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BOOK VI. ? DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. ? 1727-1730.
Chapter I. ? FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER'S SPECTRE-HUNT. CROWN-PRINCE SEEN IN DRYASDUST'S GLASS, DARKLY. Chapter II. ? DEATH OF GEORGE I. HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY FALLS INTO ONE OF HIS HYPOCHONDRIACAL FITS. Chapter III. ? VISIT TO DRESDEN. THE PHYSICALLY STRONG PAYS HIS COUNTER-VISIT. OF PRINCESS WHILHELMINA'S FOUR KINGS AND OTHER INEFFECTUAL SUITORS. Chapter IV. ? DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT IS NOT DEAD. CROWN-PRINCE FRIEDRICH WRITES CERTAIN LETTERS. DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT RE-EMERGES IN AN OFFICIAL SHAPE. HIS MAJESTY SLAUGHTERS 3,602 HEAD OF WILD SWINE. FALLS ILL, IN CONSEQUENCE; AND THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE CANNOT GET FORWARD. Chapter V. ? CONGRESS OF SOISSONS, SIXTH CRISIS IN THE SPECTRE-HUNT. Chapter VI. ? IMMINENCY OF WAR OR DUEL BETWEEN THE BRITANNIC AND PRUSSIAN MAJESTIES. CAUSE FIRST: THE HANOVER JOINT-HERITAGES, WHICH ARE NOT IN A LIQUID STATE. CAUSE SECOND: THE TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG. CAUSES THIRD AND FOURTH:?AND CAUSE FIFTH, WORTH ALL THE OTHERS. TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG, FOR THE LAST TIME. ONE NUSSLER SETTLES THE AHLDEN HERITAGES; SENDS THE MONEY HOME IN BOXES. Chapter VII. ? A MARRIAGE: NOT THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE: CROWN-PRINCE DEEP IN TROUBLE. CROWN-PRINCE'S DOMESTICITIES SEEN IN A FLASH OF LIGHTNING. Chapter VIII. ? CROWN-PRINCE GETTING BEYOND HIS DEPTH IN TROUBLE. Chapter IX. ? DOUBLE-MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE. WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS FIRST: ENGLAND SHALL SAY YES OR SAY NO. DUBOURGAY STRIKES A LIGHT FOR THE ENGLISH COURT. WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS SECOND: ENGLAND SHALL HAVE SAID NO. WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS THIRD: MAJESTY HIMSELF WILL CHOOSE, THEN. HOW FRIEDRICH PRINCE OF BAIREUTH CAME TO BE THE MAN, AFTER ALL. DOUBLE-MARRIAGE, ON THE EDGE OF SHIPWRECK, FLIES OFF A KIND OF CARRIER-PIGEON, OR NOAH'S-DOVE, TO ENGLAND, WITH CRY FOR HELP. |