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With Frederick the Great

CHAPTER 1: King and Marshal
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Everything must be correct, to a nicety, under all circumstances.

Even during hot campaigns, you must turn out in the morning as if you came from a band box.
"I will get Colonel Grunow, who commands your regiment, to tell off an old trooper, one who is thoroughly up to his work, as your servant.

I doubt not that he may be even able to find you a Scotchman, for there are many in the ranks--gentlemen who came over after Culloden, and hundreds of brave fellows who escaped Cumberland's harryings by taking ship and coming over here, where, as they supposed, they would fight under a Protestant king." "But the king is a Protestant, is he not, sir ?" "He is nominally a Protestant, Fergus.

Absolutely, his majesty has so many things to see about that he does not trouble himself greatly about religion.

I should say that he was a disciple of Voltaire, until Voltaire came here; when, upon acquaintance, he saw through the vanity of the little Frenchman, and has been much less enthusiastic about him since.
"By the way, how did you come here ?" "We heard of a ship sailing for Stettin, and that hurried my departure by some days.


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