riting-room; walks about, reading his
Letters more completely; drinking, first, several glasses of water; then
coffee, perhaps three cups with or without milk [likes coffee, and
very strong]. After coffee he takes his flute; steps about practising,
fantasying: he has been heard to say, speaking of music and its effects
on the soul, That during this fantasying he would get to considering
all manner of things, with no thought of what he was playing; and that
sometimes even the luckiest ideas about business-matters have occurred
to him while dandling with the flute. Sauntering so, he is gradually
breakfasting withal: will eat, intermittently, small chocolate cakes;
and after his coffee, cherries, figs, grapes, fruits in their season
[very fond of fruit, and has elaborate hot-houses]. So passes the early
morning.

"Between nine and ten, most of one's plan-work being got through, the
questions of the day are settled, or laid hold of for settling. Between
nine and ten, King takes to reading the 'Excerpts' (I suppose, of
the more intricate or lengthier things) of Yesterday, which his three
Cabinet Raths [Clerk Eichel and the other Two] have prepared for him.
King summons these Three, one after the other, according to their
Department; hands them the Letters just read, the Excerpts now decided
on, and signifies, in a minimum of words, what the answers are to
be,--Clerk, always in full dress, listening with both his ears, and
pencil in hand. May have, of Answers, CABINET-ORDERS so called, perhaps
a dozen, to be ready with before evening. ["In a certain Copy or
Final-Register Book [Herr Preuss's Windfall, of which INFRA] entitled
KABINETSORDENKOPIALBUCH, of One of the three Clerks, years 1746-1752,
there are, on the average, ten CABINET-ORDERS daily, Sundays included"
(Preuss, i. 352 n.).]

"Eichel and Company dismissed, King flings off his casaquin, takes his
regimental coat; has his hair touched off with pomade, with powder; and
is buttoned and ready in about five minutes;--ready for Parade, which
is at the stroke of eleven, instead of later, as it used to be in Papa's
time. If eleven is not yet come, he will get on horseback; go sweeping
about, oftenest with errands still, at all events in the free solitude
of air, till Parade-time do come. The Parole [Sentry's-WORD of the
Day] he has already given his Adjutant-General. Parole, which only the
Adjutant and Commandant had known till now, is formally given out; and
the troops g