CHAPTER IV.
FREDERICK WORKS TOO HARD .-- PASSES PART OF HIS HOLIDAYS (1826) IN REINERZ .-- STAYS ALSO AT STRZYZEWO, AND PAYS A VISIT TO PRINCE RADZIWILL .-- HE TERMINATES HIS STUDIES AT THE LYCEUM (1827).

ADOPTION OF MUSIC AS HIS PROFESSION .-- EXCURSIONS .-- FOLK-MUSIC AND THE POLISH PEASANTRY .-- SOME MORE COMPOSITIONS .-- PROJECTED TRAVELS FOR HIS IMPROVEMENT .-- HIS OUTWARD APPEARANCE AND STATE OF HEALTH.
THE art which had attracted the child took every day a stronger hold of the youth.

Frederick was not always in that sportive humour in which we have seen him repeatedly.

At times he would wander about silent and solitary, wrapped in his musical meditations.

He would sit up late, busy with his beloved music, and often, after lying down, rise from his bed in the middle of the night in order, to strike a few chords or try a short phrase--to the horror of the servants, whose first thought was of ghosts, the second that their dear young master was not quite right in his mind.