Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XI. Leibgeber's letter upon Fame. Firmian's evening chronicle. I Have cheated the reader in the preceding chapter from pure love. Nevertheless he must still remain in error until he has read the following short letter from Leib- geber: Vaduz, Feb. 2, 1786. My Firmian Stanislaus, ?I shall be at Baireuth in May, and you must also come thither. I have nothing else of importance to write to you, but this is important enough, that I command you to arrive at Baireuth on the first day of May; for I have the most mad, weighty, and unheard-of project respecting you, as sure as there is a God in heaven. My joy and your own happiness depend on this journey. I would reveal the secret to you in this letter, did it go direct out of my hands into none other but yours. Come ! you might travel with a certain Kuhschnappler Rosa, who is coming to fetch his bride out of Baireuth; but if the Kuhschnappler, which God forbid, should be that Meyern of whom you have written to me, and should this gold fish come swimming hither to give his beautiful bride more coldness than warmth with his dry withered arms, ? as snakes are placed round the bottles in Spain to cool them, ?I willthen give her my opinion of him when I come to Baireuth, and insist upon it that he is ten thousand times better than the Heresiarch Bellarmin, who committed adultery much oftener in the course of his life, that is to say, two thousand two hundred and thirty-six times. You know that this champion of the Catholics had a crim. con. with one thousand six hundred and twenty-four women. As cardinal, he wished to shew at the same time the possibility of Catholic celihacy, and the possibility of the papal description of a harlot, which the gloss exalts to the possessor of a regiment of twenty- three thousand men. I am...
