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Updated: June 21, 2025
The generals, the old Dessauer, Ziethen, Winterfeld, and the king's favorite, Rothenberg, with the ministers and councillor of state, placed themselves silently around the table. The eyes of all these experienced men, accustomed to battle and to victory, were steadily fixed upon the king. His youthful countenance alone was clear and bright; not a shadow was seen upon his brow.
"We will bring him," said the Prince, and added terribly with a terrible glare, "als Ballast." "You are to come with us," said Winterfeld, "as pallast. Do you understandt?" Bert opened his mouth to ask about the five hundred pounds, and then a saving gleam of wisdom silenced him. He met Von Winterfeld's eye, and it seemed to him the secretary nodded slightly.
And, while the Columns are marching up, Schwerin and Winterfeld ride about in personal conference with his Majesty; taking survey, through spy-glasses, of those Austrians encamped yonder on the broad back of their Zisca Hill, a couple of miles to southward.
Schwerin, gathering himself, from Glatz and the northerly country, at Landshut, very careless, he, of the pleasant Hills, and fine scattered peaks of the Giant Mountains thereabouts, was completely gathered foremost of all the Columns, having farthest to go. And on Monday, 18th April, started from Landshut, Winterfeld leading one division.
So soon as Winterfeld convinced himself that there was weight in the affair, he imparted it to Friedrich: 'Scheme of partitioning, your Majesty, of picking quarrel, then overwhelming and partitioning; most serious scheme, Austrian-Russian as well as Saxon; going on steadily for years past, and very lively at this time! If true, Friedrich cannot but admit that this is serious enough: important, thrice over, to discover whether it is true; and gives Winterfeld authority to prosecute it to the bottom, in Dresden or wherever the secret may lie.
Perhaps only cautious of getting into a general action for what was intrinsically nothing? This was a great reverse of advantage. Third, that an Aide-de-Camp made a small misnomer, misreport of one word, which was terribly important: "Bring me hither Regiment Manteuffel!" Winterfeld had ordered.
The King, not quite by the Prince's choice, has given him Winterfeld for Mentor; Winterfeld, who has an excellent military head in such matters, and a heart firm as steel, almost like a second self in the King's estimation. Excellent Winterfeld; but then there are also Schmettau, Bevern and others, possibly in private not too well affected to this Winterfeld.
Both agree that it will do in this way: ground tolerably good, slightly downwards for us, then slightly upwards again; tolerable for horse even: the intermediate lacing of dirty lakelets, the fish-ponds with their sluices drawn, Schwerin and Winterfeld either did not notice at all, or thought them insiginificant, interspersed with such beautiful "pasture-ground," of unusual verdure at this early season of the year.
Winterfeld, always for action, is of that opinion, too: and, examining farther down along their right flank, reports that there the thing is feasible. Feasible perhaps: "but straightway?" objects Schwerin. His men have been on foot since midnight, and on forced marches for days past: were it not better to rest for this one day?
Winterfeld once home, and the King's consent had, the Fraulein applied to Princess Elizabeth for leave of absence: 'A few months, to see my friends in Deutschland, your Highness! Princess Elizabeth looked hard at her; answered evasively this and that.
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