martial, and not desiring any favour should I be found guilty. This
haughty tone, in a youth, was displeasing, and I received no answer,
which threw me into despair, and induced me to use every possible
means to obtain my liberty.

My first care was to establish, by the intervention of an officer, a
certain correspondence with the object of my heart. She answered,
she was far from supposing I had ever entertained the least thought
treacherous to my country; that she knew, too well, I was perfectly
incapable, of dissimulation. She blamed the precipitate anger and
unjust suspicions of the King; promised me speedy aid, and sent me a
thousand ducats.

Had I, at this critical moment, possessed a prudent and intelligent
friend, who could have calmed my impatience, nothing perhaps might
have been more easy than to have obtained pardon from the King, by
proving my innocence; or, it may be, than to have induced him to
punish my enemies.

But the officers who then were at Glatz fed the flame of discontent.
They supposed the money I so freely distributed came all from
Hungary, furnished by the pandour chest; and advised me not to
suffer my freedom to depend upon the will of the King, but to enjoy
it in his despite.

It was not more easy to give this advice than to persuade a man to
take it, who, till then, had never encountered anything but good
fortune, and who consequently supported the reverse with impatience.
I was not yet, however, determined; because I could not yet resolve
to abandon my country, and especially Berlin.