Yes; but also towards Cleve, certain detachments of troops are marching,--do not men see?
And the Intrenchment at Buderich in those parts, that is getting forward withal,--though privately there is not the least prospect of using it, in these altered circumstances.

Friedrich already guesses that if he could get Silesia, so invaluable on the one skirt of him, he mill probably have to give up his Berg-Julich claims on the other; I fancy he is getting ready to do so, should the time come for such alternative.
But he labors at Buderich, all the same, and "improves the roads in that quarter,"-- which at least may help to keep an inquisitive public at bay.

These are seven busy weeks on Friedrich's part, and on the world's: constant realities of preparation, on the one part, industriously veiled; on the other part, such shadows, guessings, spyings, spectral movements above ground and below; Diplomatic shadows fencing, Gazetteer shadows rumoring;--dreams of a world as if near awakening to something great! "All Officers on furlough have been ordered to their posts," writes Bielfeld, on those vague terms of his: "On arriving at Berlin, you notice a great agitation in all departments of the State.

The regiments are ordered to prepare their equipages, and to hold themselves in readiness for marching.

There are magazines being formed at Frankfurt-on-Oder and at Crossen,"-- handy for Silesia, you would say?
"There are considerable trains of Artillery getting ready, and the King has frequent conferences with his Generals." [Bielfeld, i.