"Troops and generals did not know him again,"-- so excessively strict was he grown, on the sudden.

And truly "he got into details which were beneath, not only a Prince who has great views, but even a simple Captain of Infantry,"-- according to my (Valori's) military notions and experiences! [Valori, i.

99.]-- The truth is, Friedrich begins to see, more clearly than he did with GLOIRE dazzling him, that his position is an exceedingly grave one, full of risk, in the then mood and condition of the world; that he, in the whole world, has no sure friend but his Army; and that in regard to IT he cannot be too vigilant! The world is ominous to this youngest of the Kings more than to another.

Sounds as of general Political Earthquake grumble audibly to him from the deeps: all Europe likely, in any event, to get to loggerheads on this Austrian Pragmatic matter; the Nations all watching HIM, to see what he will make of it:--fugleman he to the European Nations, just about bursting up on such an adventure.

It may be a glorious position, or a not glorious; but, for certain, it is a dangerous one, and awfully solitary!-- Fuglemen the world and its Nations always have, when simultaneously bent any-whither, wisely or unwisely; and it is natural that the most adventurous spirit take that post.