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    230 ELIZABETH VON RECKB.

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    Part Ii. Great Misfortune, Which As Rare...

    time set a powerful machinery In motion to annihilate her , and to throw off the charge against himself . The clear-minded Schlosser ,

    too , we know not on what grounds , appeared in the " Deutsche Museum" with a witty sallat her "Jest against Earnest . " She

    read alland , nothing y daunted expense , produced , her " Something about Stark" , wherein she also replied to Schlosser ' s attack . All that

    Stark , afterwards wrote on the subject was but a weak effort to imwas peach Schlosser her consistency silent . , and He sent evade the what authoress could not of "be l £ Something lied away . about Nor

    his Stark defective " a manuscri reasoning pt composition by emp , loy in ing which all he the had arts soug of ht sop to histry cover ,

    and to atone for the absence of facts by smart sayings and witty sallies * He jestingly asked his self-chosen adversary if she would

    like to see this writing in print . She answered , " Yes , if the ingenious author really believed that it would serve the cause of Truth

    throug and To Li compensate h ght having ! " The ventured for work the was disagreeable to never unmask published the consequences great . deceiver thus , incurred she

    received marks of honor and approbation from many quarters ; the most important being the acknowledgments of the Empress CatherineA of her work having been sent to this monarch , by

    Zimmerman . copy , she immediately ordered it to be translated into the Russian language , and sent a letter to the authoress , thanking her

    for having dared to break the web of deceit whose meshes were so the widel disapproval y spread . of Besides her own her relatives literary opponents and especiall she y had of her to encounter incensed

    , grandmother ; for this in other respects great-hearted woman , being inclined to forbid her sex even to readwhen she heard that her

    grand-daughter had actually presumed to , ivrite _, was naturally beside herself with indignation . Frau von Kecke was already out of favor ,

    on account of some officious person having betrayed to the despotic old dowager that the " learned" Elizabeth , as she was mockingly

    termed , had been perusing Mendelssohn ' s treatise on the Immortality of the Soul ; for she considered it highly improper , aye , even

    unchristian , for a person who had been baptized to look into a book written he _Tby mi a Jew ht — have a Jew a soul who had , if indeed at least she no ri went ght so to speak far as of to immortality concede that .

    "While g brooding over , this she received fresh intelligence informing her of this degenerate scion of her race having been guilty of the

    unheard-of enormity of publishing ; and now , indeed , nothing could Xiave averted the tempest of her wrath , short of the interposition

    of the empress herself . This august personage made her appearance just at the riht momenta veritable deus ex mctchina ,, her

    imperial sceptre , like g a fairy wand , , controlled the rising of the domestic tornadoand forced from the old lady a reluctant forgiveness , mingled ,

    however , , with many a word of warning for the future .

    literary But Frau and domestic von Recke conflicts ' s personal had been concern , could s , however not divert exciting her atten these -

    230 Elizabeth Von Reckb.

    230 ELIZABETH VON RECKB .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/14/