CHAPTER III .-- PRAG CANNOT BE GOT AT ONCE.
What Friedrich's emotions after the Battle of Prag were, we do not much know.

They are not inconceivable, if we read his situation well; but in the way of speech, there is, as usual, next to nothing.

Here are two stray utterances, worth gathering from a man so uncommunicative in that form.
FRIEDRICH A MONTH BEFORE PRAG (From Lockwitz, 25th March, to Princess Amelia, at Berlin).--"My dearest Sister, I give you a thousand thanks for the hints you have got me from Dr.Eller on the illness of our dear Mother.

Thrice-welcome this; and reassures me [alas, not on good basis!] against a misfortune which I should have considered very great for me.
"As to us and our posture of affairs, political and military,--place yourself, I conjure you, above every event.

Think of our Country and remember that one's first duty is to defend it.