A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . King having inquiredthe reason, the gentleman replied that it was becauseof me, and that I had not even had the consideration towarn any one to take my duty. The King, who waswell aware that I missed my service only on account ofmy attachment to the Margrave, his brother, asked me,directly I entered his presence, if I served his brotheror himself, and why I did not do my duty better. Iwas so bewildered at the manner in which the Kingspoke those few words to me that, in truth, I do not knowwhat I said to exc
A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . King having inquiredthe reason, the gentleman replied that it was becauseof me, and that I had not even had the consideration towarn any one to take my duty. The King, who waswell aware that I missed my service only on account ofmy attachment to the Margrave, his brother, asked me,directly I entered his presence, if I served his brotheror himself, and why I did not do my duty better. Iwas so bewildered at the manner in which the Kingspoke those few words to me that, in truth, I do not knowwhat I said to excuse myself; but, whether the Kingthought my reasons good or bad, he made me no was so put out by this honour the King did me beforeseveral people that, in order to digest my resentment,I determined to go away for a time. I asked His Majesty for permission to travel; I hadno difficulty in obtaining it, on condition that I did notgo to France, with which country the King was at war. PART IITHE VAGRANT . Un nouvel Oreste poursuivi par le Sort dana diff6rens Pays ? POLLNITZ. 47. SOPHIA, ELECTRESS-DOWAGER OF HANOVER. From the Collectiou of A. M. Uroadley. 48] CHAPTER I Having taken leave of His Majesty, Pollnitz went tospend a few days with his friends at Schwedt, where hebade what was to be a last farewell to the Margravine suggested to him to set out on histravels by paying his respects to the Princesses, hersisters, at Dessau. Pollnitz, always exploiting hisOrange connection for all it was worth, was nothing loth. Dessau was a little independent principality, aboutthe size of Huntingdonshire, but with woods insteadof bogs ; revenue of it perhaps not £20,000, or even£10,000, in Leopolds time. It lies some fourscoremiles from Berlin, attainable by post-horses in a , as his father had done, stood by Prussia asif wholly native of it. Lying in such neighbourhood,and being in such affinity to the Prussian House, theDessauers may be said to have had in
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