he: "embrace your Husband on my part; I am so
overcome that I must not see him." [Wilhelmina, ii. 4; who dates 11th
January, 1732.] And so they rolled away.

Crown-Prince was back to Custrin again, many weeks before. Back to
Custrin; but under totally changed omens: his history, after that first
emergence in Wilhelmina's dance "23d November about six P.M.," and
appearance at Parade on the morrow (Saturday morning), had been as
follows. (Monday November 26th) there was again grand Ball, and the
Prince there, not in gray this time. Next day, the old Dessauer and all
the higher Officers in Berlin petitioned, "Let us have him in the Army
again, your Majesty!" Majesty consented: and so, Friday, 30th, there was
grand dinner at Seckendorf's, Crown-Prince there, in soldier's uniform
again; a completely pardoned youth. His uniform is of the Goltz
Regiment, Infantry: Goltz Regiment, which lies at Ruppin,--at and about,
in that moory Country to the Northeast, some thirty or forty miles from
Berlin;--whither his destination now is.

Crown-Prince had to resume his Kammer work at Custrin, and see the
Buildings at Carzig, for a three months longer, till some arrangements
in the Regiment Goltz were perfected, and finishing improvements given
to it. But "on the last day of February" (29th) (1732 being leap-year),
his Royal Highness's Commission to be Colonel Commandant of said
Regiment is made out; and he proceeds, in discharge of the same, to
Ruppin, where his men lie. And so puts off the pike-gray coat, and puts
on the military blue one, [Preuss, i. 69.]--never to quit it again, as
turned out.

Ruppin is a little Town, in that northwest Fehrbellin region: Regiment
Goltz had lain in detached quarters hitherto; but is now to lie at
Ruppin, the first Battalion of it there, and the rest within reach.
Here, in Ruppin itself, or ultimately at Reinsberg in the neighborhood,
was Friedrich's abode, for the next eight years. Habitual residence:
with transient excursions, chiefly to Berlin in Carnival time, or on
other great occasions, and always strictly on leave; his employment
being that of Colonel of Foot, a thing requiring continual vigilance and
industry in that Country. Least of all to be neglected, in any point,
by one in his circumstances. He did his military duties to a perfection
satisfactory even to Papa; and achieved on his own score many other
duties and improvements, for which Papa had less value. These eight
years, it is alway