fellow (SCHONEN KERL) for my Most
All-Gracious Father's regiment [the Potsdam Giants, where I used to be];
whom I could not look upon without bleeding heart. I depend on my Most
All-Gracious Father's Grace, that he will be good to me: I ask for
nothing and no happiness in the world but what comes from You; and hope
You will, some day, remember me in grace, and give me the Blue Coat
to put on again!" [BRIEFWECHSEL MIT VATER (OEuvres, xxvii. part 3d, p.
27).]--To which Papa answers nothing, or only "Hm, na, time MAY come!"

Carzig goes on straightway; Papa charmed to grant the moneys; "wood laid
out to season," and much "stubbing and digging" set on foot, before
the month ends. Carzig; and directly on the heel of it, on like terms,
Himmelstadt,--but of all this we must say no more. It is clear the
Prince is learning the Domain Sciences; eager to prove himself a perfect
son in the eyes of Papa. Papa, in hopeful moments, asks himself: "To
whom shall we marry him, then; how settle him?" But what the Prince,
in his own heart, thought of it all; how he looked, talked, lived, in
unofficial times? Here has a crabbed dim Document turned up, which,
if it were not nearly undecipherable to the reader and me, would throw
light on the point:--

SCHULENBURG'S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE CROWN-PRINCE,
DURING THE CUSTRIN TIME.

The reader knows Lieutenant-General Schulenburg; stiff little military
gentleman of grave years, nephew of the maypole EMERITA who is
called Duchess of Kendal in England. "Had a horse shot under him at
Malplaquet;" battlings and experiences enough, before and since. Has
real sense, abundant real pedantry; a Prussian soldier every inch. He
presided in the Copenick Court-martial; he is deeply concerned in these
Crown-Prince difficulties. His Majesty even honors him by expecting he
should quietly keep a monitorial eye upon the Crown-Prince;--being his
neighbor in those parts; Colonel-Commandant of a regiment of Horse at
Landsberg not many miles off. He has just been at Vienna [September,
1731 (_Militair-Lexikon,_ iii. 433).] on some "business",
(quasi-diplomatic probably, which can remain unknown to us); and has
reported upon it, or otherwise finished it off, at Berlin;--whence
rapidly home to Landsberg again. On the way homewards, and after getting
home, he writes these three Letters; off-hand and in all privacy, and
of course with a business sincerity, to Grumkow;--little thinking they
woul