uence, it
must be owned, but spurting rude from the heart...."

Jordan adds in his next Note: "This morning (14th) I quitted M. de
Camas; who, it is thought, cannot last the day. I have hardly left him
during his illness:" [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xvii. 99.]--and so let
that scene close.

Neipperg, meanwhile, had fallen back on Neisse; taken up a strong
encampment in that neighborhood; he lies thereabouts all summer;
stretched out, as it were, in a kind of vigilant dog-sleep on the
threshold, keeping watch over Neisse, and tries fighting no more at
this time, or indeed ever after, to speak of. And always, I think, with
disadvantage, when he does try a little. He had been Grand-Duke Franz's
Tutor in War-matters; had got into trouble at Belgrade once before, and
was almost hanged by the Turks. George II. had occasionally the benefit
of him, in coming years. Be not too severe on the poor man, as the
Vienna public was; he had some faculty, though not enough. "Governor of
Luxemburg," before long: there, for most part, let him peacefully
drill, and spend the remainder of his poor life. Friedrich says, neither
Neipperg nor himself, at this time, knew the least of War; and that it
would be hard to settle which of them made the more blunders in their
Silesian tussle.

Friedrich, in about three weeks hence, was fully ready for opening
trenches upon Brieg; did open trenches, accordingly, by moonlight, in
a grand nocturnal manner (as readers shall see anon); and, by vigorous
cannonading,--Marechal de Belleisle having come, by this time, to
enjoy the fine spectacle,--soon got possession of Brieg, and held
it thenceforth. Neisse now alone remained, with Neipperg vigilantly
stretched upon the threshold of it. But the Marechal de Belleisle, we
say, had come; that was the weighty circumstance. And before Neisse can
be thought of, there is a whole Europe, bickering aloft into conflict;
embattling itself from end to end, in sequel of Mollwitz Battle;
and such a preliminary sea of negotiating, diplomatic finessing,
pulse-feeling, projecting and palavering, with Friedrich for centre all
summer, as--as I wish readers could imagine without my speaking of it
farther! But they cannot.

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Chapter XI. -- THE BURSTING FORTH OF BEDLAMS: BELLEISLE AND THE BREAKERS
OF PRAGMATIC SANCTION.

The Battle of Mollwitz went off like a signal-shot among the Nations;
intimating that they were, one and all,