On the morrow St.Peter's and neighborhood lay black, but still inwardly burning; not for three days more could the ruins be completely quenched.
That was the news for Friedrich Wilhelm, before sunrise, on the point of his departure for Muhlberg and King August's scenic exhibitions.
"HM;--but we must go, all the same! We will rebuild it!" said he .-- And truly he did so.

And the polite King August, sorry to hear of the Peterskirche, "gave him excellent sandstone from the quarries of Pirna," says: Fassmann: "great blocks came boating down the Elbe" from that notable Saxon Switzerland Country, notable to readers here in time coming; and are to be found, as ashlar, in the modern St.Peter's at Berlin; a fact which the reader, till Pirna be better known to him, may remember if he likes.

[Fassmann, pp.

406-409.] And now let us to Radewitz without delay..