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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. IX. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER X
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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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