Soltikof, on the other side of Oder, as supplementary or fourth lip, is very impatient with these three.

"Why all this dodging, and fidgeting to and fro?
You are above three to one of your enemy.

Why don't you close on him at once, if you mean it at all?
The end is, He will be across Oder; and it is I that shall have the brunt to bear: Henri and he will enclose me between two fires!" And in fact, Henri, as we know, though Friedrich does not or only half does, has gone across Oder, to watch Soltikof, and guard Breslau from any attempts of his,--which are far from HIS thoughts at this moment;--a Soltikof fuming violently at the thought of such cunctations, and of being made cat's-paw again.

"Know, however, that I understand you," violently fumes Soltikof, "and that I won't.

I fall back into the Trebnitz Bog-Country, on my own right bank here, and look out for my own safety."-- "Patience, your noble Excellenz," answer they always; "oh, patience yet a little! Only yesterday (Sunday, 10th the day after his arrival in this region), we had decided to attack and crush him; Sunday very early: [Tempelhof, iv.