rs nevertheless. Yes; and if he look a
six miles to the right, there is the smoke of the evening kettles from
Zorndorf, rising into the sky; and across the River, a twenty miles to
the left, is Kunersdorf: poor sleepy sandy hamlets; where nettles of the
Devil are to be plucked one day!--

"The beautiful Wreech drove off to Tamsel," her fine house; I to this
wretched tavern; where, a couple of hours after that conversation, I
began writing it all down, and have nothing else to do for the night.
Your Excellency's most moral, stiff-necked, pipe-clayed and extremely
obedient,

"VON SCHULENBUBG."

[Forster, iii. 65-71.]

This young man may be orthodox on Predestination, and outwardly growing
all that a Papa could wish; but here are strange heterodoxies, here is
plenty of mutinous capricious fire in the interior of him, Herr General!
In fact, a young man unfortunately situated; already become solitary in
Creation; has not, except himself, a friend in the world available just
now. Tempestuous Papa storms one way, tempestuous Mamma Nature another;
and between the outsids and the inside there are inconsistencies enough.

Concerning the fair Wreech of Tamsel, with her complexion of lily and
rose, there ensued by and by much whispering, and rumoring underbreath;
which has survived in the apocryphal Anecdote-Books, not in too distinct
a form. Here, from first hand, are three words, which we may take to be
the essence of the whole. Grumkow reporting, in a sordid, occasionally
smutty, spy manner, to his Seckendorf, from Berlin, eight or ten months
hence, has this casual expression: "He [King Friedrich Wilhelm] told
me in confidence that Wreech, the Colonel's Wife, is--to P. R.
(Prince-Royal); and that Wreech vowed he would not own it for his. And
his Majesty in secret is rather pleased," adds the smutty spy. [Grumkow
to Seckendorf, Berlin, 20th August, 1732 (Forster, iii. 112).] Elsewhere
I have read that the poor object, which actually came as anticipated
(male or female, I forget), did not live long;--nor had Friedrich, by
any opportunity, another child in this world. Domestic Tamsel had
to allay itself as it best could; and the fair Wreech became much
a stranger to Friedrich,--surprisingly so to Friedrich the KING, as
perhaps we may see.--

Predestination, GNADENWAHL, Herr General: what is orthodoxy
on Predestination, with these accompaniments! [For Wreech, see
_Benekendorf,_ v. 94; for Schulenburg, ib. 26;--and _Militair-L