[With Frederick the Great by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWith Frederick the Great CHAPTER 6: A Prisoner 29/32
I will see about it this afternoon.
I have simply to say, to one of the tradesmen I employ, that I am sending an agent through Bohemia to Eulenfurst, and think that in the present disturbed state he had better travel as a trader; and ask him to fill up the official papers, and take them to the burgomaster's office to get them signed and stamped.
He will do it as a matter of course, seeing that I am a sufficiently good customer of his. "A horse I can, of course, supply you with.
It must not be too showy, but it should be a strong and serviceable animal, with a fair turn of speed.
The clothes you had perhaps better buy for yourself, together with such things as you can carry in your valises. "I would gladly ask you to stay with me here, for a while; but having arrived in that dress, it might excite remark among the servants were you to appear in a different character.
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