Smelfungus indignantly calls it an immorality and a dishonor, "a playing with loaded dice;" which in good part it surely was.

Nor can even Friedrich, who has many pleas for himself, obtain spoken acquittal; unspoken, accompanied with regrets and pity, is all even Friedrich can aspire to.

My own impression is, Smelfungus, if candid, would on clearer information and consideration have revoked much of what he says here in censure of Friedrich.

At all events, if asked: Where then is the specifical not "superstitious" WANT of "veracity" you ever found in Friedrich?
and How, OTHERWISE than even as Friedrich did, would you, most veracious Smelfungus, have plucked out your Silesia from such an Element and such a Time ?--he would be puzzled to answer.

I give his Fragment as I find it, with these deductions:-- "What negotiating we have had, and shall have," exclaims Smelfungus, my sad foregoer,--"fit rather to be omitted from a serious History, which intends to be read by human creatures! Bargaining, Promising, Non-performing.