For instance, I ask your Majesty's pardon, but I have always thought you would at last have attempted that of Plauen, had the War continued.' KING.

"'Oh, no, indeed! There was no way of taking that one.' EGO.

"'Does n't your Majesty think: With a good battery on the heights of Dolschen, which commanded us; with some battalions, ranked behind each other in the Ravine, attacking a quarter of an hour before daybreak [and so forth, at some length,--excellent for soldier readers who know the Plauen Chasm], you could have flung us out of that almost impregnable Place of Refuge ?' KING.

"'And your battery on the Windberg, which would have scourged my poor battalions, all the while, in your Ravine ?' EGO.

"'But, Sire, the night ?' KING.