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Frederick The Great and His Family

CHAPTER IX
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Louise wept; she wept for her last youthful dream, her last hope of happiness and virtue, for her sad, shadowed future and wounded pride; for to-day she had to resign forever the proud hopes, the brilliant future for which she had striven with so much energy.
But it was vain to struggle against this hard necessity.

The king had given her his orders and was there to see them carried out.

He sat behind that portiere that led into the grand saloon; he had just left Louise, and, before going, had said to her, in a stern, commanding tone: "You will fulfil my commands accurately.

You know that Fritz Wendel still lives, and that I shall be inexorable if you do not act as you have promised." Louise submitted respectfully to the king's commands; she accepted her fate, but she wept bitterly, and when she felt that the king's eyes were no longer upon her, her tears flowed unceasingly.

Perhaps Frederick still saw her, or suspected her weakness, for the portiere opened slightly, and his noble, but stern countenance appeared.
"Madame," he said, "if the prince sees you with tearful eyes, he will not believe in your happiness." Louise smiled painfully.


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