dox, too, and Friedrich not, 'the horrid man!' The fact is,--fact
dismally indubitable, though it is huddled into discreet dimness, and
all details of it (as to what Friedrich's witticisms were, and the like)
are refused us in the Prussian Books,--indignation, owing to such dismal
cause, became fixed hate on the Czarina's part, and there followed
terrible results at last: A Czarina risen to the cannibal pitch upon
a man, in his extreme need;--'INFAME CATIN DU NORD,' thinks the man!
Friedrich's wit cost him dear; him, and half a million others still
dearer, twenty years hence."--Till which time we will gladly leave the
Czarina and it.

Major von Winterfeld had been in Russia before this; and had wooed his
fair Malzahn there. He is the same Winterfeld whom we once saw dining by
the wayside with the late Friedrich Wilhelm, on that last Review-Journey
his Majesty made. A Captain in the Potsdam Giants at that time; always
in great favor with the late King; and in still greater with the
present,--who finds in him, we can dimly discover, and pretty much in
him alone, a soul somewhat like his own; the one real "peer" he had
about him. A man of little education; bred in camps; yet of a proud
natural eminency, and rugged nobleness of genius and mind. Let readers
mark this fiery hero-spirit, lying buried in those dull Books,
like lightning among clay. Here is another anecdote of his Russian
business:--

"Winterfeld had gone, in Friedrich Wilhelm's time, with a party of
Prussian drill-sergeants for Petersburg [year not given]; and duly
delivered them there. He naturally saw much of Feldmarschall Munnich,
naturally saw the Step-daughter of the Feldmarschall, a shining beauty
in Petersburg; Winterfeld himself a man of shining gifts, and character;
and one of the handsomest tall men in the world. Mutual love between
the Fraulein and him was the rapid result. But how to obtain marriage?
Winterfeld cannot marry, without leave had of his superiors: you, fair
Malzahn, are Hof-Dame of Princess Elizabeth, all your fortune the jewels
you wear; and it is too possible she will not let you go!

"They agreed to be patient, to be silent; to watch warily till
Winterfeld got home to Prussia, till the Fraulein Malzahn could also
contrive to get home. Winterfeld once home, and the King's consent had,
the Fraulein applied to Princess Elizabeth for leave of absence: 'A
few months, to see my friends in Deutschland, your Highness!' Princess
Elizabeth