. A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. trong point; they aremy favourite topic; it would take me too long unlessI put a stop to it. So I will spare you a long tirade ofreflections which will certainly send you to sleep, andI will get to Voltaire. What does he say about thisdeath ? I imagine that he thinks very seriously : itwill be the same with me. I know that, being veryill at Paris, he had a priest fetched who confessed himand administered the Sacraments to him. The poordevil feared hell and trembled at being roasted he was out of
. A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. trong point; they aremy favourite topic; it would take me too long unlessI put a stop to it. So I will spare you a long tirade ofreflections which will certainly send you to sleep, andI will get to Voltaire. What does he say about thisdeath ? I imagine that he thinks very seriously : itwill be the same with me. I know that, being veryill at Paris, he had a priest fetched who confessed himand administered the Sacraments to him. The poordevil feared hell and trembled at being roasted he was out of danger he sent for the same priestand offered him much money not to reveal to any onethat he, Voltaire, had recanted. We pass our timevery pleasantly here. The new acquisitions we havemade are very agreeable, and we actually have ComteRosiere, whom you know of. With all the wit he hadformerly, he has acquired much information and ischanged for the better in every way. He is one ofthose universal geniuses who have assimilated thesciences, the world, and the good tone of conversation,. THE KINGS JESTER 631 and one can discuss every matter with him, jocularas well as serious. We talked much about you, andyou were not in bad hands. I am working now atan opera of which the subject is so odd that it will,perhaps, arouse your curiosity. It is Deucalion andPyrrha. I will send you the French and Italian versesdirectly they have been printed. I beg you to inquireof Voltaire if a letter I wrote him three months agohas reached him, or if he is sulking with me, as hedoes not reply. You see by this scrawl that I amwriting in a great hurry. I am interrupted everymoment, and if I go on you will think that I am thesecond volume of La Dame Polon. I wish to dispelthis notion, and finish in reiterating to you my sincereesteem. WiLHELMINA. * How is poor Fredersdorf. Please give him mycompliments. I am very interested in him; he is anhonest man, and he is so devoted to the King that thatis enough
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