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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle
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reussir le reste. Je finis la par vous assurer encore, Monsieur,
que je suis tout a vous.

"FREDERIC PRINCE R."

"... You may believe I will exert all my resources to succeed in
my plan; but there will be no outward sign visible:--leave me to
act in this way, I will myself successfully bring it through.
I end by again assuring you, Monsieur, that I am yours always."

--Which again produces no effect; the English Answer being
steadily, "Both Marriages, or none."

And this, then, is what the Hotham mission is come to?
Good Dubourgay is home, recalled about a month ago, "for the sake
of his health," [Townshend's polite Despatch to him, Whitehall,
21st April, 1730.]--good old gentleman, never to be heard of in
Diplomatic History more. Dubourgay went in the first days of May;
and the month is not out, when Hotham is off to the Camp of
Radewitz; leaving his Negotiation, as it were, extinct. To the
visible regret of the Berlin public generally; to the grievous
disappointment of Queen Sophie, of the Crown-Prince and some
others,--not to speak of Wilhelmina's feelings, which are unknown
to us.

Regretful Berlin, Wilhelmina and Mamma among the others, had, by
accident, in these dejected circumstances, a strange Sign from the
Heavens provided them, one night,--if we may be permitted to
notice it here. Monday, 29th May;--and poor Queen Sophie, we
observe withal, is in the hands of the MONTHLY NURSE since Tuesday
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