slightly but indissolubly, ever since that Wednesday Night
of 1743."

Old Marechal de Noailles is to the Wars, we said;--it is in a world
all twinkling with watch-fires, and raked coals of War, that these
fine Carnival things go on. Noailles is 70,000 strong; posted in
the Rhine Countries, middle and upper Rhine; vigilantly patrolling
about, to support those staggering Bavarian Affairs; especially to
give account of his Britannic Majesty. Brittanic Majesty is thought
to have got the Dutch hoisted, after all; to have his sword OUT;--
and ere long does actually get on march; up the Rhine hitherward,
as is too evident, to Noailles, to the Kaiser and everybody!



Chapter IV.

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS MOUNT TO A DANGEROUS HEIGHT.

Led by fond hopes,--and driven also by that sad fear, of a Visit
from his Britannic Majesty,--the poor Kaiser, in the rear of those
late Seckendorf successes, quitted Frankfurt, April 17th; and the
second day after, got to Munchen. Saw himself in Munchen again,
after a space of more than two years; "all ranks of people crowding
out to welcome him;" the joy of all people, for themselves and for
him, being very great. Next day he drove out to Nymphenburg; saw
the Pandour devastations there,--might have seen the window where
the rugged old Unertl set up his ladder, "For God's sake, your
Serenity, have nothing to do with those French!"--and did not want
for sorrowful comparisons of past and present.