Frederick the Great and His Cou

toilet; he did not wish to be recognized, and his dress was sim

ink I will

e goodness to push your mask slightly over

u ever stand upon a battle-field as a conqueror, surrounded

sire, have never fled from me; they chase me and threaten me,

pursuing enem

e that they are more terrible to me than a battle-field of co

to you, and returned home victorious, I will assist you to kill off your rapacious enemies. Until

, there are all three of them. There is the modestly dressed nun who would not be recognized as Madame von Morien. There is the king of cards, Manteuffel, who is not yet aware that a quick eye has seen his hand, and his trumps are all in vain. There at

red the nun, "will yo

tz, shrugging his shoulders, "the king e

isguise of the king; you shall not only have my eternal gratitude-but look, I kno

he pin; "diamonds have a convincing eloquence, and I must submit; the king has a blue domino embroidered with silv

handing the pin and mingl

n his bosom, the king of cards approac

ions of yesterday, and I will give you all the inform

his paper contains the information you desire; I obtained it from a powerful friend, one of the con

usand crowns," said Manteuffel; "yo

the rich and

le, but they wish to marry their daughter to a Prussian cavalier. I have proposed you, and you are accepted; you have only to go to Nurembe

ry a citizen in order to obtain a fortune I know a girl here who is young, l

other small stipulation connected with your marriage with the Nuremberger; the family is Protestan

was once a Protestant, and I thin

ghed heartily,

er lies very ill from the shock of his wife's sudden death. If our plan succeeds, and Anna becomes a great singer, she will have powerful influence with the k

e him; she greeted him with roguish words, and he was again the thoughtless an

n of the letter I lost at the last

mpromising two ladies and a nobleman. I suppos

asked a hundred Louis d'ors for the letter; I have b

he money and put

me have it quickly,"

now I put it in my pocket, and it has disappeared; perhaps like yourself I lost it in the salo

oney until you have found the lett

do you keep me? allow me to go and seek this important le

speechless rage; she leaned against th

intrigues I have enough to live on for months. I stand now high in the king's favor, and who knows, perhaps he may now give me a house, not the house in the Jager Street-that is, alas, no longer vac

passed before him. Pollnitz followed her, curious to know his last petitioner, but the dark

noble and gallant cavalier, and I am s

llnitz, with his eternal smil

me the costum

t a favor; I must betray his majesty to you. He has forbidden me positively to mak

hat I desire to know: I have an ardent but innocent desire to say a few word

efore speaking; he drew nearer, and gazing piercingly at the lady, he said. "You say, madame, that it is not in idle curiosity that you desire to know the costume of the

ruth. God omnipotent, God omnipresent knows that my heart beats with admiration,

ou swea

ady, raising her arm s

cognized; there was but one lady at the Prussian court who possessed such a bracelet, and that was the reigning queen. Pollnitz was too old a courtier

my word of honor to tell no one the costume of his majesty, I must show it to you. I am now going to seek the king; I

y over her; "I shall remember this hour gratefully, and

ed money and diamonds and the favor of the queen, who

wed low; the lady stood behind, mar

ong time for Polln

Morien, Madame von Brandt, and Baron von Manteuffel. The baron remai

on Morien?" a

your majesty; and if you will step into the dark saloon,

he costume of Ma

hat studded with diamonds and a beauty spot on the left temple. She wished me to

r, however, and could

s d'ors, and then discovered that I ha

for the world that you are not married; your boys would be consummate rascals!

me a present of four thousand crowns! I took them, for appear

eving, and I would prefer you should practise it on the Austrians to pract

and was not recognized, but laughed and