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A dangerous adviser here in the Berlin element, with lightnings going!"Such a favorite was not the man to bring back my Brother from his follies. For one thing, Friedrich Wilhelm, weary of all this English pother and futility, will end the Double-Marriage speculation; Wilhelmina shall be disposed of, and so an end. Grumkow and Seckendorf, of course these accompany; Majesty's shadow is not surer.
Event is on the 5th December, 1732; Tobacco Session is of the 6th; glimpse of it is given by Speaker Grumkow himself; authentic to the bone. SESSION OF TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT, 6th DECEMBER, 1732. Grumkow, shattered into "headache" by this Session, writes Report of it to Seckendorf before going to bed.
Intersection took place duly; there was exuberant joy on the part of the Patroon; and such a dinner and night of drinking, as has seldom been. Abstruse things lie close ahead of August the Dilapidated-Strong, important to Prussia, and for which Prussia is important; let Grumkow try if he can fish the matter into clearness out of these wine-cups.
"Abdication," with a Crown-Prince ready to fall into the arms of England, and a sudden finis to our Black-Art, will by no means suit Seckendorf and Grumkow! Yet here is Winter coming; solitary Wusterhausen, with the misty winds piping round it, will make matters worse: something must be contrived; and what?
Conceive a rugged thick-sided Squire Western, of supreme degree, or this Squire Western is a hot Hohenzollern, and wears a crown royal; conceive such a burly NE-PLUS-ULTRA of a Squire, with his broad-based rectitudes and surly irrefragabilities; the honest German instincts of the man, convictions certain as the Fates, but capable of no utterance, or next to none, in words; and that he produces a Son who takes into Voltairism, piping, fiddling and belles-lettres, with apparently a total contempt for Grumkow and the giant-regiment!
Fritz he deliberately detests, as a servant of the Devil, incorrigibly rebelling against the paternal will, and going on those dissolute courses: a silly French cockatoo, suspected of disbelief in Scripture; given to nothing but fifing and play-books; who will bring Prussia aud himself to a bad end. "God grant he do not finish on the gallows!" sighed the sad Father once to Grumkow.
Enough, it came to altercations, objurgations between the two; which rose ever higher, rose at length to wager-of-battle. Indignant challenge on the part of the Old Dessauer; which, however, Grumkow, not regarded as a BARESARK in the fighting way, regrets that his Christian principles do not, forsooth, allow him to accept.
And the Dilapidated-Strong's farewell next morning, "Adieu, dear Grumkow; I think I shall not see you again!" as he rolled off towards Warsaw and the Diet, will require farther notice; but must stand over till this Marriage be got done.
But the Fates appointed otherwise; we have all to accept our Fate! All things have been got distilled into the palatable state, spiritual and economic, for oneself and one's grand Trojan-Horse of a Grumkow; and the adventure proceeds apace.
Grumkow came up, and interrupted me in the middle of a minuet: 'EH, MON DIEU MADAME! said Grumkow, 'you seem to have got bit by the tarantula! Don't you see those strangers who have just come in? I stopt short; and looking all round, I noticed at last a young man dressed in gray, whom I did not know. 'Go, then, embrace the Priuce-Royal; there he is before you! said Grumkow.
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