Early in life this story had interested me, and I often thought 
      it would make a pleasing subject for an opera or musical drama.

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        Peter Henry Bruce, having given in his entertaining Memoirs the 
      substance of this Tale, affirms that, besides the concurring 
      reports of others, he had the story from the lady's own mouth.
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        The Lady Catherine, mentioned towards the close, is the famous 
      Catherine, then bearing that name as the acknowledged Wife of 
      Peter the Great.