Our Opera too shall be a successful thing, and we hope, a speedy.

Such are Friedrich's outlooks at this time.
A miscellaneous pleasant company is here; Truchsess and Bielfeld, home from Hanover, among them; Wilhelmina is here;--Voltaire himself perhaps coming again.

Friedrich drinks his Pyrmont waters; works at his public businesses all day, which are now well in hand, and manageable by couriers; at evening he appears in company, and is the astonishment of everybody; brilliant, like a new-risen sun, as if he knew of no illness, knew of no business, but lived for amusement only.

"He intends Private Theatricals withal, and is getting ready Voltaire's MORT DE CESAR." [Preuss, _Thronbesteigung,_ p.

415.] These were pretty days at Reinsberg.