Papa, in hopeful moments, asks himself: "To whom shall we marry him, then; how settle him ?" But what the Prince, in his own heart, thought of it all; how he looked, talked, lived, in unofficial times?
Here has a crabbed dim Document turned up, which, if it were not nearly undecipherable to the reader and me, would throw light on the point:-- SCHULENBURG'S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE CROWN-PRINCE, DURING THE CUSTRIN TIME.
The reader knows Lieutenant-General Schulenburg; stiff little military gentleman of grave years, nephew of the maypole EMERITA who is called Duchess of Kendal in England.

"Had a horse shot under him at Malplaquet;" battlings and experiences enough, before and since.

Has real sense, abundant real pedantry; a Prussian soldier every inch.

He presided in the Copenick Court-martial; he is deeply concerned in these Crown-Prince difficulties.

His Majesty even honors him by expecting he should quietly keep a monitorial eye upon the Crown-Prince;--being his neighbor in those parts; Colonel-Commandant of a regiment of Horse at Landsberg not many miles off.