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

CHAPTER VIII
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He sprang out of bed in a tempest of emotion; bustled distractedly to and fro, wildly weeping.

Pollnitz, who came into the anteroom, found him in this state, "half-dressed, with dishevelled hair, in tears, and as if beside himself." "These huzzaings only tell me what I have lost!" said the new King.--"HE was in great suffering," suggested Pollnitz; "he is now at rest." "True, he suffered; but he was here with us: and now--!" [Ranke (ii.

46, 47)], from certain Fragments, still, in manuscript, of Pollnits's _Memoiren._.


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