real functions laid on him), had the honor to awaken the
Crown-Prince into the joy of reading. Crown-Prince instantly
despatched, by another estafette, the requisite responses to Papa
and Mamma,--of which Wolden does not know the contents at all, not
he, the obsequious Goldstick;--but doubtless they mean "Yes,"
Crown-Prince appearing so overjoyed at this splendid evidence of
Papa's love, as the Goldstick could perceive. [Wolden's LETTER to
Friedrich Wilhelm, "5th February, 1732:" in Preuss, ii. part 2d
(or URKUNDENOUCH), p. 206. Mamma's answer to the message brought
her by this return estafette, a mere formal VERY-WELL, written
from the fingers outward, exists ( OEuvres,
xxvi. 65); the rest have happily vanished.]

What the Prince's actual amount of joy was, we shall learn better
from the following three successive utterances of his,
confidentially despatched to Grumkow in the intermediate days,
before Berlin or this "Duke of Lorraine" (whom our readers and the
Crown-Prince are to wait upon), with actual sight of Papa and the
Intended, came in course. Grumkow's Letters to the Crown-Prince in
this important interval are not extant, nor if they were could we
stand them: from the Prince's Answers it will be sufficiently
apparent what the tenor of them was. Utterance first is about a
week after that of the estafette at midnight:--

TO GENERAL FELDMARSCHALL VON GRUMKOW, AT POTSDAM
(from the Crown-Prince).

"CUSTRIN, 11th February, 1732.

"MY DEAR GENERAL AND FRIEND,--I was charmed to learn by your