ONE:¡°I was shut up in my bedchamber, where I saw nobody, and continued always to fast. I was really dying of hunger. I read as long as there was daylight, and made remarks upon what I read. My health began to give way. I became as thin as a skeleton from want of food and exercise. One day Madam De Sonsfeld and myself were at table, looking sadly at one another, having nothing to eat but soup made with salt and water, and a ragout of old bones, full of hairs and other dirt, when we heard a knocking at the window. Surprised, we rose hastily to see what it was. We found a raven with a morsel of bread in its beak, which it laid down on the sill of the window so soon as it saw us, and flew away. Tears came into our eyes at this adventure. ¡®Our lot is very deplorable,¡¯ said I to my governess, ¡®since it even touches the creatures devoid of reason. They have more compassion for us than men, who treat us with so much cruelty.¡¯¡±Thus parted these remarkable men, who were never destined to meet again.
TWO:Regardless himself of comfort, insensible to fatigue, dead to affection, he created perhaps the most potent military machine earth has ever known. Prussia was an armed camp. The king prized his soldiers as a miser prizes his gold coin, and was as unwilling to expose them to any danger as the miser is to hazard his treasures. War would thin his regiments, soil his uniforms, destroy his materiel. He hated war. But his army caused Prussia to be respected. If needful, he could throw one hundred thousand of the best drilled and best furnished troops in Europe, like a thunderbolt, upon any point. Unprincipled monarchs would think twice before they would encroach upon a man thus armed.
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TWO:¡°Ah! here you are. I am glad to see you.¡± Then, taking a light, he carefully examined her from head to foot. After a moment¡¯s silence, he added, ¡°How changed you are! I am sorry for you, on my word. You have not bread to eat, and but for me you might go a-begging. I am a poor man myself; not able to give you much; will do what I can. I will give you now and then twenty or thirty shillings, as my affairs permit. It will always be something to assuage your want. And you, madam,¡± turning to the queen, ¡°will sometimes give her an old dress, for the poor child hasn¡¯t a shift to her back.¡± Frederick.¡±
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TWO:¡°I represented to him,¡± continues M. D¡¯Arget, ¡°that the house of Austria would never, with a tranquil eye, see his house in possession of Silesia.¡±59 While the king was thus suffering the pangs of the gout, his irascibility vented itself upon his wife and children. ¡°We were obliged,¡± says Wilhelmina, ¡°to appear at nine o¡¯clock in the morning in his room. We dined there, and did not dare to leave it even for a moment. Every day was passed by the king in invectives against my brother and myself. He no longer called me any thing but ¡®the English blackguard.¡¯ My brother was named the ¡®rascal Fritz.¡¯ He obliged us to eat and drink the things for which we had an aversion. Every day was marked by some sinister event. It was impossible to raise one¡¯s eyes without seeing some unhappy people tormented in one way or other. The king¡¯s restlessness did not allow him to remain in bed. He had himself placed in a chair on rollers, and was thus dragged all over the palace. His two arms rested upon crutches, which supported them. We always followed this triumphal car, like unhappy captives who are about to undergo their sentence.¡±
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