A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . ngratu-lated Prince Eugene; but he treated it as a joke, andsaid that if he received such a missive again he wouldcome to think himself a very important personage,because they were afraid to let him live. There was so little fear of being attacked that mostof the generals left the main army in order to be presentat the assault of the counterscarp, which took place onthe night of 7th-8th September. Our people carriedit with much loss, and took up their position on it. Theattack over, we started to rejoin the
A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . ngratu-lated Prince Eugene; but he treated it as a joke, andsaid that if he received such a missive again he wouldcome to think himself a very important personage,because they were afraid to let him live. There was so little fear of being attacked that mostof the generals left the main army in order to be presentat the assault of the counterscarp, which took place onthe night of 7th-8th September. Our people carriedit with much loss, and took up their position on it. Theattack over, we started to rejoin the main army. Unfortunately for us, the guide who had led usthither had fled, and, as it was then only an hour or twoafter midnight, we found ourselves in rather an un-pleasant predicament, and we happened to take justthe very road which led us into the midst of the was riding a hundred feet perhaps behind CountLottum, who was in his coach. Suddenly I heard ashout: Qui va la ? I confess I felt a little surprised; nevertheless, Icomforted myself with the thought that perhaps it. FREDERIC, FIRST KIXG OF IRUSSIA. 32] THE APPEENTICE 33 might be a sentry of some Walloon regiment of theSpanish troops. So I replied, Officers/ We were in a road with hedges mixed with trees,which prevented me making use of a faint moonlightby which I could have reconnoitred whom we had todo with. So it happened that I still rode on. I was nosooner out of the bushes than I found myself near enoughto a body of cavalry to see that it could not possiblybelong to us, for it was too near the fortress, and it wasfacing us. * Perceiving the danger we were in I retired as quicklyas possible to Count Lottum and told him what I had seen. Von K , his senior aide-de-camp, told me I had seen ghosts. Kraut, the second aide-de-camp,treated me much the same. Indeed, a little more, andI should have been ordered back as mad. Count Lottum, however, thought it best not torisk anything. He ordered his coachman to turn
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