mkow, in Tobacco-Parliament, understand it better. That attempt is
impossible, once for all. The first step in such attempt will require to
be assassination of Friedrich Wilhelm; for you may depend on it, royal
Sophie, so long as he is alive, the feat cannot be done. O royal Sophie,
O pretty Feekin, what a business you are making of it!

The year 1726 was throughout a troublous one to Queen Sophie.
Seckendorf's advent; King George's manifestoing; alarm of imminent
universal War, nay sputters of it actually beginning (Gibraltar invested
by the Spaniards, ready for besieging, it is said): nor was this all.
Sophie's poor Mother, worn to a tragic Megaera, locked so long in the
Castle of Ahlden, has taken up wild plans of outbreak, of escape by
means of secretaries, moneys in the Bank of Amsterdam, and I know not
what; with all which Sophie, corresponding in double and triple mystery,
has her own terrors and sorrows, trying to keep it down. And now, in the
depth of the year, the poor old Mother suddenly dies. [13th November,
1726: _Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George I._ (i.
386),--where also some of her concluding Letters ("edited" as if by the
Nightmares) can be read, but next to no sense made of them.] Burnt out
in this manner, she collapses into ashes and long rest; closing so her
nameless tragedy of thirty years' continuance:--what a Bluebeard-chamber
in the mind of Sophie! Nay there rise quarrels about the Heritage of the
Deceased, which will prove another sorrow.

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