[History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. VII. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. VII. (of XXI.) CHAPTER VII 5/20
I have been under the necessity to have him arrested.
I request you to tell my Wife of it in some good way, that the news may not terrify her.
And pity an unhappy Father. "FRIEDRICH WILHELM." [No date: "ARRIVED" (from Wesel, we conclude), Sunday, "20th August," at the Palace of Berlin (Preuss, i.
42).] The same post brought an order to the Colonel of the Gerns-d'Armes to put that Lieutenant Katte of his under close confinement:--we hope the thoughtless young fellow has already got out of the way? He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that; does not consider what danger he is in.
This same Sunday, his Major met him on the street of Berlin; said, in a significant tone, "You still HERE, Katte!"-- "I go this night," answered Katte; but he again put it off, did not go this night; and the order for his arrest did come in.
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