To equip your strong fighting man, and send him on your errand, regardless of expense; and, by way of preliminary, cut the head off him, before saying "Good-speed to you, strong man!" But with a General, Pitt sees that it can be different; that perhaps "America can be conquered in Germany," and that, with a Britannic Majesty so disposed, there is no other way of trying it.

To this course Pitt stands henceforth, heedless of the gazetteer cackle, "Hah, our Pitt too become German, after all his talking!"-- like a seventy-four under full sail, with sea, wind, pilot all of one mind, and only certain water-fowl objecting.

And is King of England for the next Four Years; the one King poor England has had this long while;--his hand felt shortly at the ends of the Earth.

And proves such a blessing to Friedrich, among others, as nothing else in this War; pretty much his one blessing, little as he expected it.

Before long, Excellency Mitchell begins consulting about a General,--and Friedrich dimly sees better things in the distance, and that Kloster-Zeven had not been the misfortune he imagined, but only "The darkest hour," which, it is said, lies "nearest to the dawn." II.