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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 57: (search)
blicly, with shameless indecorum. Having no nationality, he sought to introduce French modes Chap. LVII.} of life; had his opera, ballet-dancers, masqueradesduring the carnival, his French playhouse, a cast-off French coquette for his principal mistress, a French superintendent of theatres for his librarian. But nothing could be less like France than his court; life in Cassel was spiritless; nobody here reads, said Forster; the different ranks are stiffly separated, said the historian, Von Muller. Birth or wealth alone had influence: merit could not command respect, nor talent hope for fostering care. To this man Faucitt delivered a letter from the British king. General Schlieffen, the minister with whom he was to conduct the negotiation, prepared him for unconditional acquiescence in every demand, by dwelling on the hazard of finding the landgrave in an unfavorable turn of mind, and describing him as most exceedingly whimsical and uncertain in his humors and disposition; at t