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

CHAPTER X
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163, &c.] insinuates Jordan:--young Vattel, afterwards of the DROIT DES GENS, whom his Majesty might have kept, but did not .-- What more of your D'Argens, then; anything in your D'Argens?
Friedrich will ask.

"For certain, D'Argens is full of ESPRIT," answers Jordan, in a dexterous way; and How the Effulgent of Wurtemberg" has quarrelled outright with her D'Argens, and will not eat off silver (D'ARGENT), lest she have to name him by accident!"-- with other gossip, in a fine brief airy form, at which Jordan excels.

Cheering the rare leisure hour, in one's Tent at Selowitz, Pohrlitz, Irrlitz, far away!--There are also orders about CICERO and Books.

Of Business for most part, or of private feelings, nothing: Berlin gossip, and Books for one's reading, are the staple.

But to return.
Out from Head-quarters, diligent operations shoot forth, far enough, along those Taya-Morawa Valleys, where Hungarian "Insurgents" are beginning to be dangerous.


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