Will you accept my castle of Rheinsberg, with all its surroundings, as a present from me?
Will you grant me this pleasure, my brother ?" The king offered his hand, with a loving smile, to Henry, and received with apparent pleasure his ardent thanks.
"I chose Rheinsberg," he said, kindly, "not because it is my favorite palace, and I have passed many pleasant and happy days there, but because none of my other palaces are so appropriate for a prince who is discontented with his king.

I have made that experience myself, and I give you Rheinsberg, as my father gave it to me.

Go to Rheinsberg when you are angry with me and the world; there you can pass the first months of your marriage, and God grant it may be a happy one!" The prince answered him with a cold smile, and begged leave to withdraw, that he might make the necessary preparations for his wedding.

"We will both make our preparations," said the king, as he bade the prince farewell--"you with your major-domo, and I with Baron Pollnitz, whom I shall send as ambassador to Cassel.".