Frederick The Great and His Family

leased. The costume of an odalisque became her wonderfully; suited her luxuriant beauty, her large, dreamy blue eyes, her full red lips, her slender, swaying form. At twenty-eight

The king's watchfulness saved her from this romantic folly, and gave her another husband. This unhappy match was now at an end. Louise was again free. She still felt in her heart some of the wild love of

then acknowledged with a pleased smile that she was beautiful enou

him by my faith, and entire submission to his wishes. Oh! I shall be a virtuous wife, a true and faithful mother; and my lovely little C

, in a fantastic, luxuriant costume, bending over the cot of the little girl, with such tend

y at this moment beamed with touching splendor-that mother love had chan

ter interrupted her; the child opened

, you were not asl

not asleep; I wa

play comedy, you silly ch

for a few moments as children are wont

said, slowly-"I believ

la? When have y

was announced, and you sent me into the next room, but the door was open, and I saw very well that you made a sad face, and I heard the prince ask you ho

he laid her hand upon her heart, for she fe

at you; how he kissed you, and said you were as lovely as an ange

must be good and virtuous," sai

oulders and exposed her soft childish form, her brown ringlets c

lovely face, and made the gold and silver embroidere

t her mother, she looked like an angel, but she had

hy should I be virtuo

errified at her daughter. "Wh

d how he, at the command of the king, married you and saved you from shame; and he said you were not at all grateful, but had often betrayed and deceived him, and, because he was so unhappy with you, he dra

ly, as if crushed, to the floor; and, with her

I will not do as papa says, and I will not be so stupid as

ept, Camilla continue

ntlemen, what soft eyes you make, and then again, how cold and proud you are, and then look at them so tenderly! Oh, I have

ecome a good and virtuous girl, and never run away with a man. Forget what your bad father has

u swear that i

hild, I ca

run off wit

t told you that a virtuo

unhappy, and, being his

y daug

ong pause, "can you give me your r

out to perjure herself; but as she looked into the beautiful face of her child, who

ear that all your fat

always want me to tell the truth, and never give my right hand

ne!" said the m

hat all papa told me was false; and I say

ieve that, Cami

rd all; you did not see me slip into the room and hide behind the fire-place. Papa told you that you had been the cause of all his unhappiness and shame; that from the day you had run off with the gard

d her. Still leaning on the bed, she looked at her child with painful ten

urmured, "bot

child, and pressed her closely; kissed her wildly ag

n good and pure! Every child has its guardian angel; pr

returned to her chamber, sadder and more

"If the carriage would but come!" she murmured, and then, as if to excuse her thoughtlessness, she added, "it is now my holy duty to listen to th

ized perfectly with her alluring costume-no longer the tender mothe

arranged her disordered dress an

e must gain courage from my glance, to offer me his hand. Oh, I know he is quite prepared to do so, if it were only to