[History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. IX. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. IX. (of XXI.) CHAPTER X 25/68
I was beginning to doze a little, when they came to warn me that 'M.
von Knobelsdorf wished to speak with me from the Prince-Royal.' I darted out of bed, and ran to him.
He," handing me a Letter, "brought word that"-- But let us now give Letter Second, which has turned up lately, and which curiously completes the picture here.
Friedrich, on rising refreshed with sleep at Hof, had taken a cheerfuler view; and the Generals still lagging rearward, he thinks it possible to see Wilhelmina after all. Possible; and yet so very dangerous,--perhaps not possible? Here is a second Letter written from Munchberg, some fifteen miles farther on, at an after period of the same Friday: purport still of a perplexed nature, "I will, and I dare not;"-- practical outcome, of itself uncertain, is scattered now by torrents and thunderstorms.
This is the Letter, which Knobelsdorf now hands to Wilhelmina at that untimely hour of Saturday:-- 2.
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