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"Your majesty must not think so meanly of me as to suppose that I would make a profit out of the misfortunes of others, and that I have interceded for the poor Leipsigers in order to make a trade out of them!" "I think that you are a hard-headed, obstinate fellow, who must be allowed to have his own way," said the king, with an affable smile.
The Leipsigers indeed boasted that they had given an asylum to poetry and art. The warrior-hero was now changed for a few happy months into the philosopher, the poet, and the scholar. Frederick's brow, contracted by anxiety and care, was now smooth; his eye took again its wonted fire a smile was on his lip, and the hand which had so long brandished the sword, gladly resumed the pen.
The king looked around with surprise he had quite forgotten Gotzkowsky. "Ah! are you still there? and you prophesy me victory? Well, that will be as good to me as the Leipsic money. Go back home, and tell the Leipsigers to hurry with the money. And hark ye! when you get to Potsdam, greet the Correggio, and tell him I yearn for him as a lover does for his mistress Adieu!"
But hush about these hard-headed Leipsigers. They must pay. My soldiers cannot live on air, and my coffers are empty." "The Leipsigers are very willing to contribute, but the demand must not exceed their powers." "How do you know that?" "The magistracy and merchant guild of Leipsic sent a deputation to me, and entreated my mediation."
Johann was a dreamer, inexperienced in the ways of the world; he was an idealist in short, a genius gifted with an "imagination, profound, original and romantic." The day after the concert he wrote Joachim he had made a brilliant and decided failure. However he was not a whit discouraged by the apathy of the Leipsigers toward his new work.
"Yes, sire, I do it because I relied on the kind, noble heart of my king, and because humanity bade me not to fear your majesty's anger, when it became a question of mercy to the oppressed." "And for this reason you wanted to bribe me with your bits of porcelain. Oh, you are a reckoner, but this time you have reckoned without your host. No pity for these obstinate Leipsigers.
"If your majesty orders it, the bonds shall be drawn out with my guaranty." "I look to you, then, for their payment." "At your orders, sire." "Well, then, for your sake I will remit the Leipsigers three hundred thousand dollars; but for the rest of the million you are answerable." "I will be answerable for it."
They must pay the eleven hundred thousand dollars, or " "Or what?" asked Gotzkowsky, as he hesitated. The king looked angrily at him. "You are very bold," said he, "to interrupt me. The Leipsigers must pay, for I need the money for my soldiers, and they are rich; they are able to pay!" "They are not able to pay, sire!
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