Sorry as I was to lose the horse I rode at Lobositz, I congratulated myself that I was not riding one of yours." "I should have had no difficulty in replacing him, Captain Drummond," the count said with a smile.

"The least we can do is to keep you in horse flesh while the war lasts; which I hope will not be very long, for surely your king can never hope to make head against the forces that will assail him in the spring, but will be glad to make peace on any terms." "No doubt he would be glad to, count; but as his enemies propose to divide his dominions among them, it is not very clear what terms he could make.

But though I grant that, on paper, the odds against him is enormous, I think that you will see there will be some hard fighting yet, before Prussia is partitioned." "Perhaps so," the count replied; "but surely the end must be the same.

You know I have been a strong opponent of the course taken by the court here.

Saxony and Prussia, as Protestant countries, should be natural allies; and I consider it is infamous that the court, or rather Bruhl, who is all powerful, should have joined in a coalition against Frederick, who had given us no cause of complaint, whatever.