For the rest, our affairs go the best in the world; and soon thou wilt hear nothing more of us.
For in ten days it will all be over; and I shall have the pleasure of seeing you and hearing you, in about a fortnight.
"I have seen neither my Brother [August Wilhelm, not long ago at Strasburg with us, and betrothed since then] nor Keyserling: I left them at Breslau, not to expose them to the dangers of war.

They perhaps will be a little angry; but what can I do ?--The rather as, on this occasion, one cannot share in the glory, unless one is a mortar! "Adieu, M.le Conseiller [Poor's-RATH, so styled].

Go and amuse yourself with Horace, study Pausanias, and be gay over Anacreon.

As to me, who for amusement have nothing but merlons, fascines and gabions, [Merlons are mounds of earth placed behind the solid or blind parts of the parapet (that is, between the embrasures) of a Fortification; fascines are bundles of brushwood for filling up a ditch; gabions, baskets filled with earth to be ranged in defence till you get trenches dug.] I pray God to grant me soon a pleasanter and peacefuler occupation, and you health, satisfaction and whatever your heart desires .-- F." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xvii.

84.] KING FRIEDRICH TO M.LE COMTE ALGAROTTI (gone on a journey).
"OTTMACHAU, 17th JANUARY, 1741 [same day as the above to Jordan].