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Updated: June 6, 2025
My single purpose must now be, in the first place, to withdraw my oppressed land and people from these flames of war into lasting repose and a peaceful security, and then to govern them well. I shall send you to Sweden, therefore, Leuchtmar, to conclude for me a temporary armistice with the Swedes, and also to negotiate the conditions of a peace.
And with flaming countenance and eyes flashing with energy and passion, the Prince crossed the apartment, violently pulled open the door, and strode out. Leuchtmar looked after him with a mixture of tenderness and grief. "How angry he was, and yet how glorious to look upon!" he said softly to himself. "A young hero, who one day will perform his vow.
"But, Müller," cried Baron Leuchtmar despairingly, "what have you done? How could you be so inconsiderate?" The old man drew himself up, and his mild eye grew angry. "Inconsiderate! I was not at all inconsiderate, Baron Leuchtmar.
Leuchtmar hastened forward, and, taking the paper which the Elector held out to him, read: "'It is to be lamented that the officers contrive to pocket so much press money and hardly produce one out of every six men said to have been enlisted.
"I thank your highness out of a sincere soul for so great a favor," softly replied Leuchtmar. "Meanwhile I do not intend to go into any other service, but to content myself with quiet retirement in the bosom of my own family." "Do just as you choose," said the Elector, "and may good fortune attend you everywhere. Electress, give me your arm, and let us withdraw to our own apartments.
Well, now, the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine belongs to the society of the Media Nocte!" "I knew that, Prince," said Leuchtmar solemnly. The Prince gave a scream of rage, and a deadly pallor overspread his cheeks.
Go to him now, Marwitz, and lay before him candidly and without reserve, as you have done before me, the deplorable condition of things in our native land." "You will come with me, Leuchtmar, and present me to the Electoral Prince?" "No, baron. You must suffer yourself to be announced by the chamberlain, for the Prince dismissed me yesterday in wrath.
"You have been to Holland? At The Hague and at Doornward?" "I have been there, gracious sir!" "You have been there," repeated Frederick William, drawing a deep breath. "O Leuchtmar! you men in private life are happy because you are free. You can go whither you will, and follow the dictates of your own hearts.
I shall intrust to you a letter for the young Queen, which you must try to slip into her own hand without Oxenstiern knowing anything about it. Go now, dear Leuchtmar, and prepare all things for your journey. Meanwhile I shall write the letter." "In one hour, your highness, I shall be ready," said Leuchtmar, withdrawing with a low bow. The Elector thoughtfully followed him with his eyes.
"Leuchtmar," said the latter, shortly and quickly, "all is not between us as it should be." "I have remarked it for some time with pain," replied the baron softly. "Your highness is out of humor." "No, I am discontented!" cried the Prince; "and, by heavens, I have a right to be!" "Will your highness have the kindness to tell me why you are discontented?"
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