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The vanguard of the French army attacked the rear guard of the allies, commanded by major-general Einsiedel, very briskly, and at first put them into some confusion, but they immediately recovered themselves. This was in the beginning of the night.
Friedrich, after despatching Nassau to cut out Einsiedel, had delivered the Silesian Army to the Old Dessauer, who is to command in chief during Winter; and had then hastened to Berlin, many things there urgently requiring his presence; preparations, reparations, not to speak of diplomacies, and what was the heaviest item of all, new finance for the coming exertions.
Prag is left under General Einsiedel with a small garrison of 5,000; Einsiedel, a steady elderly gentleman, favorite of Friedrich Wilhelm's, has brief order, or outline of order to be filled up by his own good sense. Posadowsky follows the march, with as many meal-wagons as possible, draught-cattle in very ineffectual condition.
"I will scratch his eyes out?" cried Goechhausen, "and then the Countess Werther can play Antigone, and lead him around as Oedipus. Why shut your eyes, Einsiedel? I do not scratch quite yet." "I was not thinking of that," said the baron, astonished. "You never think that every one knows; but did you not do it so soon as you understood the Countess Werther should lead blind Oedipus as Antigone?"
"Waiter," said I, "I will take supper in the dining-room with everybody else." "If you want to see those ladies, that won't do, as they have ordered their supper to be brought up to them. They want to go to bed in good time as they are to leave at day-break." "Where are they going?" "To Our Lady of Einsiedel to pay their vows." "Where do they come from?" "From Soleure." "What are their names?"
"Waiter," said I, "I will take supper in the dining-room with everybody else." "If you want to see those ladies, that won't do, as they have ordered their supper to be brought up to them. They want to go to bed in good time as they are to leave at day-break." "Where are they going?" "To Our Lady of Einsiedel to pay their vows." "Where do they come from?" "From Soleure." "What are their names?"
This is the only species of entertainment allowed at Zurich, and only members of the musical society can be present, with the exception of strangers, who have to be introduced by a member, and are then admitted on the payment of a crown. The two gentlemen both spoke in very high terms of the Abbot of Einsiedel. I thought the concert a bad one, and got bored at it.
Whereupon, in the latter end of his long march, and almost within sight of home, ensues the hardest brush of all for Einsiedel. Not to think what became of the equipments, baggage-wagons, sick-wagons: too evident Einsiedel's loss, in all kinds, was very considerable.
Those orders which had the highest reputation, were, according to him, the worst of all, since they led more people astray. He styled monks in general as a vile rabble, the curse of the human race. "But," said I to him one day, "you will confess that Our Lady of Einsiedel . . ."
He went away laughing, and at the door of his coach embraced me for the third time. I could not doubt that my charmer had told the whole story to her three friends as they were returning from Einsiedel to Zurich, and this made the part they had played all the more ill-natured; but I felt that it was to my interest to let their malice pass for wit.
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