text:  Those miraculous productions of Providence the little German sovereigns live on etiquette never abate an atom of their opportunities of convincing inferior mortals that they are of a super-eminent breed; and in part seem to have strangely forgotten that salutary lesson which Napoleon and his captains taught them in the days when a republican brigadier or an imperial aid-de-camp though the son of a tailor treated their "Serene Highnesses" and "High Mightinesses" with as little ceremony as the thoroughly beaten deserved from the conquerors