death"--did actually die 30th May (10th June): a world-tragedy that too, though in small compass, and acting itself next door, at Twicken- ham, without noise; a star of the firmament going out; twin-star, Swift (Carteret's old friend), likewise going out, sunk in the socket, "a driv- eler and a show." * * "I am, with the truest respect and affection, dear sir, your most dutiful Son, GEORGE LYTTELTON." 27
Friedrich returned from Pyrmont 11th June; saw, with a grief of his own, with many thoughts well hidden, his Sister Ul- rique whirled away from him, 26th July, in the gray of the sum- mer dawn. In Berlin, in Prussia, nobody but one is aware of worse just coming. And now the War-drums suddenly awaken again, and poor readers--not to speak of poor Prussia and its King!--must return to that uncomfortable sphere till things mend. END OF VOL. III ____________________ | 27 | Ayscough, Lord Lyttelton's Miscellaneous Works ( Lond., 1776), iii., 318. | -596- |