text:  The intelligence is required for a sister of his whom I have lately met in this country--a showy "citizeness" of Zurich _embonpoint_ and matronly married to one of the portly burghers of the city and exemplary in all the arts of sheep-shearing wool-spinning and cheese-making; a mother surrounded _a la Francaise_ with a host of Orlandos Hyacintes Aristomenes and Apollos--pretty children with the Frenchman developing in all its gaudiness; the Switzer remaining behind until it shall come forth in cloudy brows and a face stamped with money-making