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Study will be possible to him; improvement of his own faculties, at any rate. It is much his determination. Outwardly, besides drilling the Regiment Goltz, he will have a steady correspondence to keep up with his Brunswick Charmer; let him see that he be not slack in that. Friedrich, after some farther pause in Berlin, till things were got ready for him, went to Ruppin.
Come into the house, the night air is dangerous; we will sleep here together." "Where are the two grenadiers?" said Goltz. "I have sent them off on duty." "Then your majesty must allow us to remain on guard. I have slept well, and am entirely refreshed." "I also," said the second lieutenant. "Will your majesty be pleased to sleep? we will keep guard."
Bernes, the crafty Piedmontese, assured me of revenge, without my troubling myself in the matter, and what happened after I know not; Goltz appeared but little in company, fell ill when I had left Russia, and died soon after of a consumption. This vile man was, no doubt, the cause of all the calamities which fell upon me.
"Now big guns have been brought from Chatalja, Adrianople and elsewhere, roads have been made, heavy movable armaments provided, troops and machine guns have been poured into the Peninsula, several lines of trenches have been dug, every landing place has been trenched and mined, and all that clever German Officers under Von der Goltz can design, and hard working diggers like the Turks can carry out, has been done to make the Peninsula impregnable.
'You are right, he said. 'You must be right. We have laughed at the Holy War, the jehad that old Von der Goltz prophesied. But I believe that stupid old man with the big spectacles was right. There is a jehad preparing. The question is, How? 'I'm hanged if I know, I said; 'but I'll bet it won't be done by a pack of stout German officers in pickelhaubes.
No sooner was Goltz in possession of it than he hurried to the chancellor, with whose weakness he was well acquainted, told him his intent in coming was to prove that a man, who had once been unfaithful to his king and country, where he had been loaded with favours, would certainly betray, for his own private interest, every state where he was trusted.
Ruppin is a little Town, in that northwest Fehrbellin region: Regiment Goltz had lain in detached quarters hitherto; but is now to lie at Ruppin, the first Battalion of it there, and the rest within reach. Here, in Ruppin itself, or ultimately at Reinsberg in the neighborhood, was Friedrich's abode, for the next eight years.
The Baron de Roll, in the name of the Count d'Artois, and the Viscount de Caraman, in the name of Louis XVI., had possessed themselves of all the avenues to this cabinet. The Count de Goltz, ambassador from Prussia to Paris, had informed his court of the object of M. de Ségur's mission.
The result of Henri being what we said, a drawn game, or nearly so, we will, without interference from him, follow Friedrich and Goltz. Friedrich and Goltz, or, alas, it is very soon Friedrich alone; the valiant Goltz soon perishing from his hand! After brief junction in Schweidnitz Country, Friedrich detached Goltz to his old fortified Camp at Glogau, there to be on watch.
Napoleon accepted the terms which Goltz proposed, but asked only that the Kingdom of Saxony should be spared; if this was done, he would not only adopt, he would recommend them. An agreement was quickly come to.
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